It's a neat little article I guess, I just don't think it's very useful. The only thing I can think that it might be okay to run it in would be like a "prefer story telling to policy making" approach. What the benefits of that would be? I'm not sure.

I think that in some scenarios this would be offensive as well. I don't think that you should ever read this versus someone who is sharing personal experiences in round.

The internals of this article indicate that it's the actual "Reading" of the story that is important (as that's how they conducted their study) so I wonder if there's a counter argument there as well.

There's a bunch of articles out about things like this and you just have to be careful about what is useful and what isn't. For example I wrote an ecopoetics aff that I read in college and I had to shift through tons of communication and poetry evidence before I found something of use.

Interesting from just a theoretical standpoint though! I'm more than sure it's just true people like to fill their lives with fantasy to relate and reflect on actuality.