How your brain responds to stories

This enlightening talk from Karen Eber highlights the incredible importance and significance of storytelling. Particularly how data doesn’t change our behaviours emotions do and by telling an emotionally engaging story we are wired to empathise and in doing so gain trust in the storyteller. In opposition without a story we are wired to fill in gaps based on our own experience and bias which can undermine the goal we set out to achieve by presenting data.