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The psychology of fiction with Jennifer Lynn Barnes

WorkLife with Adam Grant

CHAPTER

The Imaginative Engagement Scale

"I've always loved about fiction is puzzle solving. And most of the time I have no idea what the mystery is going to be," she says. "There's a combination of kind of surprise, which is delightful, and then also reward, which is validating" In fan fiction, someone literally co-writes your text; they take characters or situations and make them their own. But while you're reading, you can do that in your head.

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