Gender and reading

Bortolussi, Marisa; Dixon, Peter; Sopcak, Paul

doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2010.03.004

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“…The empirical study of literature has experienced an exciting growth over the past few decades (Dixon & Bortolussi, 2011;Gerrig, 1993;Oatley, 1999;Zyngier, Bortolussi, Chesnokova, & Auracher, 2008). Researchers have examined a diverse set of topics, including how exposure to narratives can alter our attitudes and beliefs (Green, Strange, & Brock, 2002;Prentice, Gerrig, & Bailis, 1997), how reading can shape our self-perceptions (Gabriel & Young, 2011) and our abilities (Appel, 2011), how readers represent characters (Rapp & Gerrig, 2001) and their perspectives (Özyürek & Trabasso, 1997), and how individual characteristics of readers can influence their engagement with a text (Bortolussi, Dixon, & Sopčák, 2010;Mazzocco, Green, Sasota, & Jones, 2010). A number of these fascinating topics continue to generate promising avenues of research, and such is the case with the observation that narrative fiction is associated with greater social ability.…”

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What you read matters: The role of fiction genre in predicting interpersonal sensitivity.

Fong¹,

Mullin²,

Mar³

2013

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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Previous studies have found a positive relationship between exposure to fiction and interpersonal sensitivity. However, it is unclear whether exposure to different genres of fiction may be differentially related to these outcomes for readers. The current study investigated the role of four fiction genres (i.e., Domestic Fiction, Romance, Science-Fiction/Fantasy, and Suspense/Thriller) in the relationship between fiction and interpersonal sensitivity, controlling for other individual differences. Participants completed a survey that included a lifetime print-exposure measure along with an interpersonal sensitivity task. Some, but not all, fiction genres were related to higher scores on our measure of interpersonal sensitivity. Furthermore, after controlling for personality, gender, age, English fluency, and exposure to nonfiction, only the Romance and Suspense/Thriller genres remained significant predictors of interpersonal sensitivity. The findings of this study demonstrate that in discussing the influence of fiction print-exposure on readers it is important to consider the genre of the literature being consumed.

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What you read matters: The role of fiction genre in predicting interpersonal sensitivity.

Fong¹,

Mullin²,

Mar³

2013

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

117

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“…Also, females tend to opt for novels, whereas males seem to prefer short stories, reports and comics (Scales and Rhee 2001;Clark and Foster 2005). Interestingly, Bortolussi et al (2010) find that both genres appreciate more books with a male protagonist. Childhood socialization and gender-role stereotypes can partially explain these findings (Tepper 2000).…”

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confidence: 87%

Unraveling the effect of extrinsic reading on reading with intrinsic motivation

Suárez-Fernández

Boto‐García

2019

J Cult Econ

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In this paper, we analyze the effect of the time spent on reading for leisure (when the motivation is intrinsic) on the time devoted to reading for job-related or educational purposes (when the motivation is extrinsic). To do so, we use the Cultural Habits and Practices Survey conducted by the Ministry of Education and Culture of Spain in 2014-2015. As the main determinants of the time spent on intrinsic reading, we consider the time devoted to extrinsic reading, sociodemographic characteristics, labor situation, participation in other leisure activities and an index of cultural capital at home. We estimate a Heckman model that allows us to control for self-selection. Results show that the time devoted to intrinsic reading mainly depends on the time spent on reading with extrinsic motivation, human capital and cultural background. Reading with extrinsic motivation increases the likelihood of intrinsic reading but reduces the time allocated to it. Therefore, our results suggest a substitution pattern between time spent reading for leisure and reading with extrinsic motivation.

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“…Experimental research designs might help tease out some of these effects (cf. Bortolussi et al, 2010). Moroccan minority author as Dutch?…”

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Assimilation into the Literary Mainstream? The Classification of Ethnic Minority Authors in Newspaper Reviews in the United States, the Netherlands and Germany

2013

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This article addresses to what extent literary critics in the United States, the Netherlands and Germany have drawn ethnic boundaries in their reviews of ethnic minority writers between 1983 and 2009 and to what extent these boundaries have changed in the course of ethnic minority writers' careers and across time? By analyzing newspaper reviews, we find that American reviewers less often mention the ethnic background of Mexican American authors than their Dutch and German colleagues refer to the background of Moroccan and Turkish minority writers. But while these relatively strong ethnic boundaries become weaker over time in the Netherlands (boundary shifting), Turkish German authors encounter particularly strong boundaries in subsequent book publications (ethnicization). In the U.S. the reverse is true: ethnic boundaries weaken after the debut has been reviewed (boundary crossing). The findings are related to (nationally different) chronic accessibility (U.S. and Germany) and specific field dynamics (Netherlands).

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Gender and reading

Cited by 35 publications

References 28 publications

What you read matters: The role of fiction genre in predicting interpersonal sensitivity.

What you read matters: The role of fiction genre in predicting interpersonal sensitivity.

Unraveling the effect of extrinsic reading on reading with intrinsic motivation

Assimilation into the Literary Mainstream? The Classification of Ethnic Minority Authors in Newspaper Reviews in the United States, the Netherlands and Germany

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