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Please Join us for the Fourth Monday Colloquium with Ben Hiskes

“Possibilistic Thinking, Empathy, and Awe in Narratives“

In this talk, Ben will be discussing how people cognitively process narratives, and how the narratives we experience can shape our cognitive processes off the page and beyond the screen. This talk will include a discussion of key ideas in the field of narrative cognition, as well as an overview of some of my own relevant research.

Specific topics will include how, when reading narratives, we imagine counterfactual possibilities, empathize with some characters and not others, and experience emotions like “awe” that can open us up to connecting with each other.