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The psychology of fiction with Jennifer Lynn Barnes
WorkLife with Adam Grant
The Reading in the Mind in the Eyes Test
There are psychological benefits of reading fiction, as well as self-civilection. In terms of the experimental evidence, Jen says that it is mixed. Even studies we've done in my own lab have turned out to be mixed. My personal theory, which I left science before I could experimentally test, is that just reading probably isn't enough.
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