Story Psych: A Semi-Scientific Look at What Makes a Good Story (Tor post)

As a psychology major and someone whose day job regularly draws on psychological principles (I’m a behavioral therapist for children with special needs), I thought it’d be interesting to do a series of posts examining how the science of the mind might be applied to the world of literature.

To start things off, I’ll be tackling one of the biggest questions there is: just what is it that makes a story “good”? From a psychological perspective, that is.

One of the biggest factors, I’d guess, is memory…

Read on!

(Feel free to comment there or here–I’ll be watching both.)


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