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2006
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Memory and Mystery: The Cultural Selection of Minimally Counterintuitive Narratives
We hypothesize that cultural narratives such as myths and folktales are more likely to achieve cultural stability if they correspond to a minimally counterintuitive (MCI) cognitiv...
Ara Norenzayan, Scott Atran, Jason Faulkner, Mark ...