A review by brynphd
If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating by Alan Alda

4.0

It was a breezy, enjoyable read that makes an argument for storytelling as a means to communicate science to a larger audience. Some of the deeper claims underpinning why this is important, I.e., the underlying constructs of empathy, familiarity, tying emotion to a story as a means of better solidifying memories, sound plausible - and indeed, who couldn’t stand to look for a way to relate to someone else? With that, I take off a star for the lack of references to these claims (other than citing an author name); we need both storytelling and the receipts in science.

I think it’s a great place to start thinking about using stories as a knowledge translation tool and how we can find common ground with others in order to share our message.