What Happens Next in 6 Minutes
What Happens Next in 6 Minutes
Larry Bernstein
Why We Crave Stories
28 minutes Posted May 13, 2026 at 12:19 pm.
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This podcast was taped at a conference where I hosted several Penn Professors on various topics. The audience included my friends who will join me in asking questions.

Fritz Breithaupt is the speaker, and he is a humanities scholar as well as a cognitive scientist at UPenn where he is studying the relationship between narratives and empathy. Fritz is the author of a new book entitled The Narrative Brain: The Stories Our Neurons Tell.

I want Fritz to talk about how we experience fictional stories in our daydreams to achieve personal growth.



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