“Fiction might be the mind’s flight simulator,” Keith Oatley wrote in a new review of the research on reading and mental health, published Tuesday in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
Research into the psychological impact of literature suggests that when we read stories in which characters are rich and developed, we actually slip into those characters ourselves. By taking on these other personalities, we learn what it’s like to be someone else, and improve our own social skills.
We’ve all read books and watched films that have transported us and changed us, that have catapulted our imaginations into lives vastly different from our own. Think of a movie like City of God, which reveals the violent world of two boys growing…
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Mitt Romney tells NBC News he doesn’t have an empathy problem, despite the polls and the reaction to his “47 percent” comments. The evidence? His Massachusetts health care reform law!See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion
a session at Reasons to be Creative by Evgenia Grinblo Empathy is at the core of excellent user experience work. But to those outside of the creative industry, it still often sounds like a ‘fluffy’ and ‘soft’ skill. This talk is about those o…
