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How Stories Change Us: A Developmental Science of Stories from Fiction and Real Life

Autor Elaine Reese
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 dec 2024
In recent years, gold-standard experimental evidence on the benefits of reading fiction has exploded. Why do we love stories from books, TV and movies, and videogames? What do fictional stories have to do with stories from real life? How do stories impact our own and our children's brain development, reading skills, social understanding, and well-being?In How Stories Change Us, Elaine Reese integrates the latest scientific research on stories from fiction (books, TV shows and movies, videogames) with stories from real life (our personal experiences, including on social media) across the lifespan. The book offers an authoritative yet accessible overview of the new interdisciplinary science of stories, told by a developmental psychologist and autobiographical memory expert with over thirty years of experience conducting research on stories. Throughout, Reese adopts a developmental perspective by tracing the impact of stories from pre-birth to old age. Drawing upon illustrative examples from her 20-year longitudinal study Origins of Memory as well as from her own life, Reese synthesizes cutting-edge research on the benefits and pitfalls of stories and offers practical tips for parents, teachers, librarians, and policymakers.Reese concludes that people have a preferred fictional story delivery system, whether it's reading, watching, or gaming, and she advocates for a more integrated science of stories to allow us to better choose the stories we consume and tell.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197747902
ISBN-10: 0197747906
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 155 x 226 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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How Stories Change Us offers an authoritative overview of the interdisciplinary science of stories. Reese draws on her more than 20-year longitudinal study, "Origins of Memory," which she conducted starting in the mid-1990s. Throughout her book, she addresses the fundamental role of the brain in the way people receive and tell stories. She synthesizes several conclusions about story preferences and how stories from both fiction and real life can act as a force for human connection, compassion, understanding, and identity. This book is not about the history of stories or the art of storytelling; rather, it articulates the latest scientific research on the role that stories—all types and via all delivery mechanisms—play in our lives every day. Reese's book is informative, engaging, and concisely written. Recommended. All readers.
Reese provides a superb synthesis of our scientific understanding of stories, which she weaves together with tales from her own life like a true storyteller. An engaging and stimulating read—you will learn a lot about why you love the stories you do and the ways they shape you.
Elaine Reese's masterful book, ow Stories Change Us, provides a rich overview of the ways that stories and reading can alter the ways we think and connect with others. Trained as a developmental psychologist, Reese walks us through the science of narrative—from hearing bedtime stories to reading novels. Her work has important lessons about reading in the twenty-first century, including introducing adults to the role that social media is playing with today's children, tweens, and teens. I loved this book. It's the kind of book that stays with you whether you are a parent, a storyteller, a budding writer, or a researcher.
As a psychological scientist who loves stories, Elaine Reese is the perfect person to tell the story of the science of stories. In this engaging and deeply researched book, she describes the development of our relationship with stories across the human life course, beginning even in the womb as we hear our mother's narrating voice. Stories change us, and they teach us how to be human. With great authority and compassion, Professor Reese conveys abiding insights about human development, parenting, gender, and family relationships, and she provides practical advice regarding the promise and the perils of storytelling in today's world.

Notă biografică

Elaine Reese is Professor of Psychology at the University of Otago. She is an American-New Zealand developmental psychologist who has researched the impact of stories on children's and adolescents' development and well-being for over 30 years. Her focus is on how parents and teachers in diverse cultures support young people's language, literacy, and socioemotional development through the stories they share from books and real-life experiences. Reese received her B.A. in Psychology from Trinity University, her M.A. and Ph.D. from Emory University, and has taught at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, and at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. She served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cognition and Development and as an advisor to the longitudinal birth cohort study Growing Up in New Zealand. She is currently leading a national early childhood education study called "Kia Timata Pai: The Best Start Study", and her book for parents is called Tell Me a Story:Sharing Stories to Enrich Your Child's Life (Oxford, 2013). She is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand/Te Aparangi.