Reading Fictional Narratives to Improve Social and Moral Cognition: The Influence of Narrative Perspective, Transportation, and Identification

There is a long tradition in philosophy and literary criticism of belief in the social and moral benefits of exposure to fiction, and recent empirical work has examined some of these claims. However, little of this research has addressed the textual features responsible for the hypothesized cognitiv...

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Main Authors: Lena Wimmer, Stacie Friend, Gregory Currie, Heather J. Ferguson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Communication
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2020.611935/full