Listener Mail: Hasten Down the Wind
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Explore "mental shortcuts" with insightful episodes like "Listener Mail: Hasten Down the Wind" and "Why We Love Surprises" from podcasts like ""Stuff To Blow Your Mind" and "Hidden Brain"" and more!
Episodes (2)
Why We Love Surprises
Why do we fall for surprise endings? It turns out that our capacity to be easily fooled in books and movies is made possible by a handful of predictable mental shortcuts. In this 2018 conversation, we talk with Vera Tobin, one of the world's first cognitive scientists to study plot twists. She says storytellers have been exploiting narrative twists and turns for millennia — and that studying these sleights of hand can give us a better understanding of the contours of the mind.