This post has been de-listed
It is no longer included in search results and normal feeds (front page, hot posts, subreddit posts, etc). It remains visible only via the author's post history.
23
Why do we get emotional over fictional stories?
Post Body
Are there any reasons/theories behind this kind of behavior? I find it weird we know a story is completely made up, set in a weird world and the characters are played by actors we've seen play many other roles. Yet we will still get attached and upset despite knowing they don't exist and what happened never really happened. On top of that we can read many real life sad stories in the paper, watch the news, or read a biography and hardly feel as much as emotion as we do fictional stories.
Author
Account Strength
100%
Account Age
4 years
Verified Email
Yes
Verified Flair
No
Total Karma
14,410
Link Karma
2,779
Comment Karma
11,495
Profile updated: 4 days ago
Subreddit
Post Details
We try to extract some basic information from the post title. This is not
always successful or accurate, please use your best judgement and compare
these values to the post title and body for confirmation.
- Posted
- 5 months ago
- Reddit URL
- View post on reddit.com
- External URL
- reddit.com/r/AskAnthropo...