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"Writers are often lonely obsessives...However, I would still write even if novels were useless."
I think it's interesting that this author didn't believe that their writing had, "social value" prior to hearing about the study. All fiction is inherently valuable because it creates new people and a new story, expanding our universe a bit more. I would like to know the nature of the books this author writes.

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That is the conclusion of a study published Thursday in the journal Science. It found that after reading literary fiction, as opposed to popular fiction or serious nonfiction, people performed better on tests measuring empathy, social perception and emotional intelligence — skills that come in especially handy when you are trying to read someone’s body language or gauge what they might be thinking.
I chose this quote because it really shows all the benefits that reading literary fiction has over popular fiction .
I wonder thought if their are any benefits that popular fiction has over literary fiction that they didn't talk about.

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"In literary fiction, like Dostoyevsky, “there is no single, overarching authorial voice,” he said. “Each character presents a different version of reality, and they aren’t necessarily reliable. You have to participate as a reader in this dialectic, which is really something you have to do in real life.” This part of the passage got my attention because it explains what literary fiction is and tells us how the reader get to be involved in the writing compare to popular fiction.

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PG 2 "More recently, in a field called “theory of mind,” scientists have used emotional intelligence perception tests to study, for example, children with autism." This quote made me think about what kinds of things is in the "theory of mind". That interests me because I wonder how it all works sometimes and what I can do to change it. If a book can change important ways that I think I would like to see it and try it.

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In popular fiction, said Mr. Kidd, one of the researchers, “really the author is in control, and the reader has a more passive role.”In literary fiction, like Dostoyevsky, “there is no single, overarching authorial voice,” he said. “Each character presents a different version of reality, and they aren’t necessarily reliable. You have to participate as a reader in this dialectic, which is really something you have to do in real life.”

I chose this quote because this made me think about the differences of those kinds of books and really made me understand them. Now i see, a popular fiction would be something that people in this world would like to happen or things that are normal to us now. But literary fiction does and says things that make us readers think in the long run and even doubt our thoughts and experience.

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“The study’s authors… Students more nonfiction” P3
This quotation is interesting because it is saying that the study helped call out common core and really prove it isn’t as effective as it assumes. I’m interested to find out if any change actually did occur due to this very clear cut evidence of Literary fiction being better in helping kids with social skills.

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PG 3 “Each character presents a different version of reality, and they aren’t necessarily reliable. You have to participate as a reader in this dialectic, which is really something you have to do in real life.”
This quote is interesting to me because it is true, when the reading is engaging it makes the reader think more and explore new ideas about how social ques work and how we react to certain emotions. It raised the question for me: how often can people relate to this situation in their daily lives?

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"There is much the study does not address: How long could such effects last? Would three months of reading Charles Dickens and Jane Austen produce larger or smaller effects, or have no impact? Are the differences in scores all attributable to the type of material read? Would the results hold if the same person read all of the types? And would it matter if the literary fiction was particularly difficult? (Nobody was asked to read James Joyce or Thomas Pynchon.)" Paragraph 18
This quotation really sparked my interest because it brings up a lot of really important points about the study. I think it's great that reading can increase human intelligence so significantly, but I think that more research needs to be done. There's still a lot we don't know for sure.

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"...found that people who read literary fiction scored better than those who read popular fiction. This was true even though, when asked, subjects said they did not enjoy literary fiction as much. Literary fiction readers also scored better than nonfiction readers — and popular fiction readers made as many mistakes as people who read nothing." This interested me because it explained the results from the experiment, but still had you asking more questions about it. I specifically wondered what specific techniques were used in the books that made such a difference in the test scores.

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"There is much the study does not address: How long could such effects last? Would three months of reading Charles Dickens and Jane Austen produce larger or smaller effects, or have no impact?" I picked this quote becasue I had the same question while I was reading the passage. And my question would be, how long do these effects last?

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¨The idea that what we read might influence our social and emotional skills is not new. Previous studies have correlated various types of reading with empathy and sensitivity. More recently, in a field called “theory of mind,” scientists have used emotional intelligence perception tests to study, for example, children with autism.¨

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"You are getting ready for a blind date or a job interview. What should you do? Besides shower and shave, of course, it turns out you should read — but not just anything. " Introduction of the passage, and it got my attention because it has a good hook and gets people to read. My question is "How did the writer think of this introduction and also what new social skills would help on a job interview"?