From: Live Science
Ya Had to Be There: Science Confirms We’re Bad at Telling Stories
February 24, 2017
Live Science:
Go ahead: Tell that same story about your college shenanigans the next time you’re out with your friends. They’ll thank you for it.
A new study finds that people prefer hearing familiar stories to new ones, probably because people are generally such bad storytellers that brand-new tales are just confusing.
“When our friends try to tell us about movies we’ve never seen or albums we’ve never heard, we usually find ourselves bored, confused and underwhelmed,” study researcher Daniel Gilbert, a psychologist at Harvard University, said in a statement.
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