{"id":570,"date":"2009-11-03T11:37:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T15:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/?p=570"},"modified":"2009-11-03T11:37:39","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T15:37:39","slug":"story-psych-what-makes-a-good-story-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/03\/story-psych-what-makes-a-good-story-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Story Psych: What Makes a Good Story (Part 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I talked about how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=blog&#038;id=58148\">memory<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=blog&#038;id=58167\">behaviorism<\/a> might affect readers\u2019 enjoyment of a story. The final area of psychology I\u2019m going to discuss is persuasion.<\/p>\n<p>When psychologists study persuasive techniques, they are usually focusing on topics like advertising and politics. How do people persuade other people to trust them and believe the message they&#8217;re conveying (whether it&#8217;s \u201cBuy this product now!\u201d or \u201cVote for me!\u201d)? But persuasion plays a role in many other areas, including stories.<\/p>\n<p><center><font size=+1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=blog&#038;id=58194\">Read on!<\/a><\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Open to comments here and there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I talked about how memory and behaviorism might affect readers\u2019 enjoyment of a story. The final area of psychology I\u2019m going to discuss is persuasion. When psychologists study persuasive techniques, they are usually focusing on topics like advertising &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/03\/story-psych-what-makes-a-good-story-part-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}