In “The Narrative Brain,” Fritz Breithaupt attempts to deconstruct these processes and reveal how they work, going between high abstraction and specific cases. Real-world stories include ...

And one thing they've found is that "one of the strongest triggers for human empathy is observing some kind of conflict between two other parties," says Fritz Breithaupt, a professor at Indiana ...

FRITZ BREITHAUPT: Absolutely. That's exactly how I grew up. ROSIN: This is Fritz Breithaupt, a professor at the University of Indiana who wrote a book on empathy.

In The Narrative Brain, cognitive scientist Fritz Breithaupt explores why we render the world in stories—and how the rewards of narrative thinking keep us spinning out yarns.

“The beauty of this approach,” says Fritz Breithaupt, a cognitive scientist at Indiana University Bloomington and a lead author of the study, “is that it shows a transition of the original story to ...

By Fritz Alwin Breithaupt Yale University Press 296 pages We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site.

FRITZ BREITHAUPT: Absolutely. That's exactly how I grew up. ROSIN: This is Fritz Breithaupt, a professor at the University of Indiana who wrote a book on empathy.

FRITZ BREITHAUPT: Absolutely. That's exactly how I grew up. ROSIN: This is Fritz Breithaupt, a professor at the University of Indiana who wrote a book on empathy.

FRITZ BREITHAUPT: Absolutely. That's exactly how I grew up. ROSIN: This is Fritz Breithaupt, a professor at the University of Indiana who wrote a book on empathy.