Reading other minds: Effects of literature on empathy

By Maja Djikic, Keith Oatley, Mihnea C. Moldoveanu. 2013

221 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Psychiatry and Mental health, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• The effects of reading material on social and non-social cognition (2015, methodology): “A history of reading fiction, as assessed by familiarity with author names, has frequently been associated with higher scores on the RME (e.g., Djikic et al., 2013; Kidd & Castano, 2013; Mar et al., 2006), accounting for variability in scores on the RME over and above openness, age, experience, and…”
• Effects of Literature on Empathy and Self-Reflection: A Theoretical-Empirical Framework (2015, unknown): “Djikic et al. (2013) randomly assigned respondents to read an essay or a literary short story and measured both cognitive and affective empathy, using Davis ’ self-report measure, the Interpersonal Re-activity Index (IRI; Davis 1980; 1983).”