Notion that fiction increases empathy has been making the rounds. Not an area I've researched heavily, I am intrigued but skeptical.
I haven't read the article, but I read the abstract, and am startled that it seems like a correlational study.
Do they do anything to differentiate "reading fiction increases empathy" from "empathic people read more fiction"?
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