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How Does Fiction Reading Influence Empathy? An Experimental Investigation on the Role of Emotional Transportation

The current study investigated whether fiction experiences change empathy of the reader. Based on transportation theory, it was predicted that when people read fiction, and they are emotionally transported into the story, they become more empathic. Two experiments showed that empathy was influenced...

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Autores principales: Bal, P. Matthijs, Veltkamp, Martijn
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3559433/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23383160
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0055341