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The Neurobiology of Why Your Learner’s Brain Responds to Great Storytelling

Maestro

When you think about the power of storytelling, your first thought might be of the movies—even as Hollywood continues to churn out stories that follow familiar arcs we’ve seen time and again, we keep showing up and finding ourselves drawn in, happily paying to see it play out in different forms on the big screen. And now you’re hooked.

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Instructional Storytelling: How to Use it In Your Corporate Training

eLearningMind

It might sound familiar for your favorite novel or the last movie you saw, but what does this mean for your training materials? Instead, you can adopt the key steps from the hero’s journey and blend them with well-known training models to create a story that is as engaging as it is effective. Influence Behavior.

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The Psychology and Neuroscience of the Underdog Effect: Why We’re all Leicester City Football Fans!

Learningtogo

This post also gives me an opportunity to demonstrate how neuroscience validates and deepens our understanding of human behavior as hypothesized by psychology. This tendency seems to validate the statement that our brain is hard-wired for survival , an observation made by John Medina and others. Empathy and Oxytocin play a part.

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Multitasking Vs. Continuous Partial Attention

eLearningMind

Natural human behavior dictates how your learners react to certain material, and in a world where time is a precious commodity, organizations must decide exactly how they want learners to experience and absorb information. Or is it more effective to choose a more fluid delivery method ?

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Instructional Storytelling: How to Use the Hero’s Journey for Training

eLearningMind

Instead, you can adopt the key steps from the hero’s journey and blend them with well-known training models to create a story that is as engaging as it is effective. This journey elicits an Angel’s Cocktail of chemicals in your learner’s brains—dopamine, oxytocin, and endorphins—making the learning more meaningful and engaging.

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“Everyone Loves a Winner” – Except When We Don’t

Learningtogo

This tendency seems to validate the statement that our brain is hard-wired for survival , an observation made by John Medina and others. But human behavior is rarely that straight forward. The Underdog Effect ” was published in the Journal of Applied Psychology in 2008. Empathy and Oxytocin play a role.

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Activate the Braincells Through the Art of Storytelling

Magic EdTech

What comes to your mind when you hear words “movie”, “novel”, “theater” or an “advertisement”? All of us enjoy a good story, whether it’s a novel, a movie, a drama, an advertisement or something our friends/teachers/family members narrate to us. In fact, a story puts the whole brain to work.