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IIRC there was a study how reading fiction corelates with more emphaty.

by rimliu 8y ago

mlthoughts2018 8y ago
Does that mean anyone would conclude that all fiction elicits empathy? Or that fiction never elicits empathy? Or any other similar extreme conclusion? Wouldn't we obviously say that there exist types of (fictional work, reader) pairings that yield sympathetic outcomes and other (fictional work, reader) pairings that yield sadistic / non-empathic outcomes? In other words, from what source does there drive any kind of authoritative argument that generic reading of fiction either always or generally leads to increases in measures of empathy? A study that measures fiction reading would surely not be adequate, unless it controlled for all possible sources of variation between dispositions of people and dispositions of fictional works, which is ludicrous in principle.
mcguire 8y ago
* Novel Finding: Reading Literary Fiction Improves Empathy (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/novel-finding-reading-literary-fiction-improves-empathy/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/novel-finding-rea...) * The Relationship Between Empathy and Reading Fiction: Separate Roles for Cognitive and Affective Components (https://jeps.efpsa.org/articles/10.5334/jeps.ca/print/ https://jeps.efpsa.org/articles/10.5334/jeps.ca/print/) * How Does Fiction Reading Influence Empathy? An Experimental Investigation on the Role of Emotional Transportation (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3559433/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3559433/) * Can fiction stories make us more empathetic? (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140811151632.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140811151632.h...) * Exploring the link between reading fictionand empathy: Ruling out individual differencesand examining outcomes (https://www.yorku.ca/mar/Mar%20et%20al%202009_reading%20fiction%20and%20empathy.pdf https://www.yorku.ca/mar/Mar%20et%20al%202009_reading%20fict...) But see * Reading Literature Won’t Give You Superpowers: Psychologists have failed to replicate a famous study suggesting that short fiction improves readers’ abilities to read the emotional states of others. (https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/12/should-psychologists-study-fiction/509405/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/12/should-p...)

IIRC there was a study how reading fiction corelates with more emphaty.

by rimliu 8y ago

IIRC there was a study how reading fiction corelates with more emphaty.

mlthoughts2018 8y ago

Does that mean anyone would conclude that all fiction elicits empathy? Or that fiction never elicits empathy? Or any other similar extreme conclusion? Wouldn't we obviously say that there exist types of (fictional work, reader) pairings that yield sympathetic outcomes and other (fictional work, reader) pairings that yield sadistic / non-empathic outcomes? In other words, from what source does there drive any kind of authoritative argument that generic reading of fiction either always or generally leads to increases in measures of empathy? A study that measures fiction reading would surely not be adequate, unless it controlled for all possible sources of variation between dispositions of people and dispositions of fictional works, which is ludicrous in principle.

mcguire 8y ago

* Novel Finding: Reading Literary Fiction Improves Empathy (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/novel-finding-reading-literary-fiction-improves-empathy/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/novel-finding-rea...) * The Relationship Between Empathy and Reading Fiction: Separate Roles for Cognitive and Affective Components (https://jeps.efpsa.org/articles/10.5334/jeps.ca/print/ https://jeps.efpsa.org/articles/10.5334/jeps.ca/print/) * How Does Fiction Reading Influence Empathy? An Experimental Investigation on the Role of Emotional Transportation (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3559433/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3559433/) * Can fiction stories make us more empathetic? (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140811151632.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140811151632.h...) * Exploring the link between reading fictionand empathy: Ruling out individual differencesand examining outcomes (https://www.yorku.ca/mar/Mar%20et%20al%202009_reading%20fiction%20and%20empathy.pdf https://www.yorku.ca/mar/Mar%20et%20al%202009_reading%20fict...) But see * Reading Literature Won’t Give You Superpowers: Psychologists have failed to replicate a famous study suggesting that short fiction improves readers’ abilities to read the emotional states of others. (https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/12/should-psychologists-study-fiction/509405/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/12/should-p...)