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Bookshelves of Lesser Doom

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Aug 31 '11
“It looked as if reading fiction increased empathy and social understanding, not that socially skilled people read more fiction. Raymond Mar and two other colleagues also did a study on preschool children, and found that the more stories the children had read to them, and the more movies they watched, the better was their understanding of others. Watching television had no such effect.”
— Keith Oatley

(Source: The Huffington Post)

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