4 Summary of Week 2

This week you have learned a little about the potential effects that reading can have on individuals who read. You have explored the concepts of transportation into a story world, and you have learned about empathy with characters, and how crime writers might deliberately want to manipulate who we feel empathy with. You have considered some of the real-world consequences of reading fiction on empathic responding towards others in the real-world and have been introduced to the idea that reading stories may be persuasive in changing our attitudes.

Next week you will develop your learning with a more specific focus on the relationships that you form with the characters you read about and will learn a little more about how these relationships might help reduce loneliness, and improve your self-concept.

You can now go to Week 3.