Reading literary fiction improves 'mind-reading' skills
Friday, October 4, 2013 - 15:30
in Psychology & Sociology
Researchers have published a paper demonstrating that reading literary fiction enhances a set of skills and thought processes fundamental to complex social relationships -- and functional societies. These researchers performed five experiments to measure the effect of reading literary fiction on participants' Theory of Mind, the complex social skill of "mind-reading" to understand others' mental states.