How Movies Can Change Your Beliefs - Myth & Transportation Theory

Описание: Movies are so prevalent today it is hard to imagine a time when they did not exist, to think of such a world would mean a complete transformation of our collective and individual perceptions. The movie industry leads the world in entertainment and as such holds a large , if not the biggest, part of the cultural narrative. Have you ever wondered the mechanism being used to attract so many people? What makes someone more or less susceptible to assimilating implied beliefs from a story?

An explanation of myth in the words of some of the great thinkers of the past century and a closer look at the literature on the psychology of transportability hold some of the answers.

0:00 Intro
2:25 Myth as a universal language
4:20 Studies on transportability
7:25 Conclusion

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