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Behav Brain Sci
; 46: e98, 2023 05 08.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-37154117
ABSTRACT
By structuring information in a systematic relational framework, narratives are cultural attractors that are particularly well-suited for transmission. The relational structure of narrative is partly what communicates causality, but this structure also complicates both transmission and selection on cultural elements by introducing correlations among narrative elements and between different narratives. These correlations have implications for adaptation, complexity, and robustness.