Does reading novels evoking empathy with fictional characters really cultivate our sympathetic imagination and lead to altruistic actions on behalf of real others?
the literary study of empathy and the psychological study of novel reading
Does reading novels evoking empathy with fictional characters really cultivate our sympathetic imagination and lead to altruistic actions on behalf of real others?
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October 13, 2006 at 2:34 pm and is filed under Books, Developmental Psychology, Empathy, Literature, Psychology, Reading, Social Psychology, Uncategorized.
