{"id":4377,"date":"2013-07-31T10:42:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T14:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/?p=4377"},"modified":"2025-05-05T10:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T14:37:07","slug":"why-peope-love-to-get-lost-in-books-and-why-do-we-get-transported-by-stories-we-know-are-false","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/2013\/why-peope-love-to-get-lost-in-books-and-why-do-we-get-transported-by-stories-we-know-are-false\/","title":{"rendered":"Why people love to get lost in books and Why do we get transported by stories we know are false?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Why people love to get lost in books and Why do we get transported by stories we know are false?\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the blog of science magazine Nautilus associate professor Jim Davies explores the cognitive science of why we get so carried away by stories, even when we know that they are fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"why-people-love-to-get-lost-in-books\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;Why People Love to Get Lost in Books&#8221;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the huge range of different human cultural inclinations, one of the most widespread is a fondness for stories. We just love to get lost in a good book or movie. When we do, we tend to ignore where we are and become completely absorbed in the story. Psychologists call this \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1207\/s15326950dp3802_5#.UePsp432ZqU\" target=\"_blank\">transportation<\/a>,\u201d and have conducted ingenious experiments to figure out what makes a story compelling, why people seek out transportation, and what kinds of people are more likely experience the feeling.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/nautil.us\/blog\/why-people-love-to-get-lost-in-books\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a> to read more&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"why-do-we-get-transported-by-stories-we-know-are-false\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;Why do we get transported by stories we know are false&#8221;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Jasper Fforde\u2019s light hearted \u201cThursday Next\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0142001805\/themonkeykhomeim\" target=\"_blank\">series<\/a> of books, people can use a \u201cprose portal\u201d to enter the world of a book, to change the plot or kidnap a character. The prose portal is an imaginative metaphor for a familiar experience: feeling taken away by a narrative, sucked into a good book so that we forget about our actual surroundings. This phenomenon is called \u201ctransportation,\u201d and it\u2019s common and revealing enough that scientists have done a lot of research on it. &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/nautil.us\/blog\/why-do-we-get-transported-by-stories-we-know-are-false\" target=\"_blank\">Click here <\/a>to read more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the blog of science magazine Nautilus associate professor Jim Davies explores the cognitive science of why we get so carried away by stories, even when we know that they are fiction. &#8220;Why People Love to Get Lost in Books&#8221; In the huge range of different human cultural inclinations, one of the most widespread is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4377"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6202,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377\/revisions\/6202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}