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The psychology of fiction with Jennifer Lynn Barnes

WorkLife with Adam Grant

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How Does Lifetime Fiction Exposure Affect Us?

LZ Granderson: We've talked about why we love fiction, but it also leaves a mark in ways that people don't often realize. What do we know about lifetime fiction exposure and how it alters your experience of the world? LZ: The more authors you tend to recognize an author recognition test, the higher the performance on the reading the mind and the eyes test. And now I say we can't use the word alters because it could equally be the case that people who are good at reading other people are more interested in others.

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