2022
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/e4n9v
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The impact of fiction reading on social outcomes: A four-week randomized controlled study

Abstract: Does reading fiction improve our ability to understand one another? Correlational data suggest that lifetime fiction exposure is positively associated with social outcomes. The latest experimental data suggest that fiction reading may slightly improve social ability, although this conclusion is tenuous. Here, we test fiction’s putative causal impact on social outcomes by conducting a randomized controlled study in which adult participants (N=210) were randomly assigned to engage in no reading for pleasure, or … Show more

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