Why are survivor stories so effective in awareness campaigns? The answer lies in the science of narrative transportation. When we hear a factual statistic, the language processing centers of our brain decode the words. But when we hear a story—when a cancer survivor describes the coldness of the hospital room or a trafficking survivor recalls the specific shade of a sunset they thought would be their last—our brains light up differently.
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