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user-inactivated · 4133 days ago · link · · parent · post: Reading literary fiction greatly enhances performance on Theory of Mind tests
But why? What does reading material have to do with emotion? Don't insult me by saying that people who mostly read nonfiction are therefore more likely to be robotic automatons who can't experience love. If anything it's the other way around.Does reading more nonfiction improve your ability to reason? Does reading romance novels make you more inclined to fall in love?
Why on earth would it? (Is falling in love even real?) The premise of this study strikes me as on the face of it so ridiculous that I may actually read the fucking paper itself.