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Homo Narratus (The Storytelling Species)

The Challenge (and Importance) of Modeling Narrative in Human Understanding

Published in: Social-Behavioral Modeling for Complex Systems, Chapter 37 (2019). doi: 10.1002/9781119485001.ch37

Posted on RAND.org on June 11, 2019

by Christopher Paul

This chapter describes narrative-related research for the US Marine Corps and then highlights corresponding challenges for social-behavioral modeling.

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