History & The Arts
Does fiction make people more empathic and is that a good thing?
...psychology, it can refer to a range of processes from emotion contagion (‘catching’ someone’s feeling), to reading facial expressions, to interpreting someone’s beliefs or motivations. And that’s only half of the picture. Fictional stories can be long or short, engaging or boring, complex and hard to read or easy and straightforward. They might be told in the...