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"The researchers — Emanuele Castano, a psychology professor, and David Comer Kidd, a doctoral candidate — 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."

I think this is interesting because the people were scoring better even tho they were saying they did not enjoy literary fiction as much.

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"Dr. Humphrey, an emeritus professor at Cambridge University’s Darwin College, said he would have expected that reading generally would make people more empathetic and understanding. “But to separate off literary fiction, and to demonstrate that it has different effects from the other forms of reading, is remarkable,” he said.
Experts said the results implied that people could be primed for social skills like empathy, just as watching a clip from a sad movie can make one feel more emotional."

This in an interesting quote because it states that people are more prone to social skills and having empathy.

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"The researchers — Emanuele Castano, a psychology professor, and David Comer Kidd, a doctoral candidate — 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 quote interests me because the people tested were scoring lower on the ones they liked and higher on the ones they did not like.

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"The researchers — Emanuele Castano, a psychology professor, and David Comer Kidd, a doctoral candidate — 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 quote interests me because it goes into a little more detail on how readers were affected. I believe literary fiction helps us empathize because it forces us to think about a character's intentions and personality (instead of just trusting them because they're the main character). This may help strengthen our ability to read into the actions and expressions of people in real life.

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"After reading — or in some cases reading nothing — the participants took computerized tests that measure people’s ability to decode emotions....four adjectives best described the emotion each showed." This quote interests me because it gave more of an incite on how the people were tested. I wonder though if any of the participants didnt have emotions they could show or describe, like a psychopath.

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"Is the woman with the smoky eyes aghast or doubtful? Is the man whose gaze has slivered to a squint suspicious or indecisive? Is she interested or irritated, flirtatious or hostile? Is he fantasizing or guilty, dominant or horrified? Or annoyed that his tech stock dropped half a percent on the Nasdaq in a round of late trading after news from the Middle East? (Just kidding — that last one isn’t on the test.)"

I chose this quote because it really drew in my attention with the style of the writing. I liked the authors use of questions to get her point across as well the descriptive adjectives.

A question I had when reading is what was the effect the author was trying to create with the use of all of these questions?

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"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 I was interested in how reading could help with going on a date. This quote is explaining how reading a certain book, like a literary fiction, could make you more sensitive to detail, and enables you to pay attention to them, and to be able to recognize what they are.

A question that was raised in my mind was, how could a book make you more sensitive to emotions and body language, and how could it enable you to recognize emotions and body language,  then enables you to respond appropriately?

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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."

I chose this quote because I feel as if my generation could heavily relate to it. What we see and surround ourselves with online can affect us more than we think.

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"'Writers are often lonely obsessives, especially the literary ones. It’s nice to be told what we write is of social value,' she said. 'However, I would still write even if novels were useless.'"

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"'Writers are often lonely obsessives, especially the literary ones. It’s nice to be told what we write is of social value,' she said. 'However, I would still write even if novels were useless.'"

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I find this quote interesting because it's from the perspective of someone who would write even if their writing had no impact. Are writers who write literary fiction different from the writers who write popular fiction? - Lacy

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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 chose this quote because it brings forward the possibility that some literary novels will have different effects than others.

This brings into question; how do you qualify a novel as an impactful literary?

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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." This quote is interesting because it is talking about how studies about reading different things have been useful for studying autism. It makes me wonder what other things could be researched with this topic.

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“Frankly, I agree with the study,” said Albert Wendland, who directs a master’s program in writing popular fiction at Seton Hill University. “Reading sensitive and lengthy explorations of people’s lives, that kind of fiction is literally putting yourself into another person’s position — lives that could be more difficult, more complex, more than what you might be used to in popular fiction. It makes sense that they will find that, yeah, that can lead to more empathy and understanding of other lives.”

i chose this passage because it says a lot about the life we all already live, and it tells a bit of a deeper meaning to reading those types of stories

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"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."
I found this interesting because these studies are helping people who have Autism. Its very interesting to me this study and makes me wonder the other studies we could find?

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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 interest me because people said they liked one more then the other but scored worse on the one they liked, why do you think this happened?