1. Imagining Possible Worlds
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Felix Budelmann, Keith Oatley, and Robin I. M. Dunbar
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media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Empathy ,050105 experimental psychology ,Possible world ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Aesthetics ,Reading (process) ,Theory of mind ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Narrative ,Research questions ,Psychology ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,General Psychology ,media_common - Abstract
The reading of fiction has been found to confer benefits, including increased empathy and understanding of others. Among ongoing research questions are those of how people engage in imagined worlds while keeping in touch with the currently perceived world, as well as how far stories were important in human evolution and how the brain is involved understanding them. more...
- Published
- 2018
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