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Reading Literary Fiction Improves “Mind-Reading” Skills
finds a study from the New School for social research
| Emanuele Castano (l) and David Comer Kidd (r) |
NEW YORK (October 3, )—Heated debates about the quantifiable value of arts and literature are a common feature of American social discourse.
Now, two researchers from The New School for Social Research have published a paper in Science demonstrating that reading literary fiction enhances a set of skills and thought processes fundamental to complex social relationships—and functional societies.
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candidate David Comer Kidd and his advisor, professor of psychology Emanuele Castano performed five experiments to measure the effect of reading literary fiction on participants’ Theory of Mind (ToM), the complex social skill of “mind-reading” to understand others’ mental states.
Their paper, which appears in the Oct. 3 issue of Science is entitled “Reading Literary Fiction Improves Theory of Mind.”
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