Leisure reading and social cognition: A meta-analysis.

By Micah L. Mumper, Richard Gerrig. 2017

178 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education, Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/f264635d6b4dce8c5ed69c6f002d7ef9ba97cdd2

How researchers see this paper

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In Education

1. Raymond A. Mar
2. Tuomas Eerola

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. Raymond A. Mar
2. Tuomas Eerola
3. Katharina Schäfer
4. E. Koopman
5. Emanuele Castano
6. D. Kidd
7. D. McAdams

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Raymond A. Mar
2. Tuomas Eerola
3. E. Koopman

Citations in the corpus

• How listening to music and engagement with other media provide a sense of belonging: An exploratory study of social surrogacy (2018, background): “Furthermore, reading fiction is associated with a better understanding of others’ mental states and a higher level of empathy (Mumper & Gerrig, 2017).”
• Stories and the Promotion of Social Cognition (2018, background): “This result has often been replicated, with a metaanalysis averaging the results of 14 such studies on mentalizing and 22 similar studies on empathy confirming that lifetime exposure to narrative fiction predicts both (Mumper & Gerrig, 2017).”