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Read Better Books To Be a Better Person

Posted by timothy on from the great-books-like-the-novelization-of-grand-theft-auto-5 dept.

00_NOP writes "Researchers from the New School for Social Research in New York have demonstrated that if you read quality literary fiction you become a better person, in the sense that you are more likely to empathize with others [paper abstract]. Presumably we can all think of books that have changed the way we feel about the world — so this is, in a sense, a scientific confirmation of something fairly intuitive."

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  1. Better books? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The last book I read was "The Prince," so fuck you asshole!

  2. I Read Starship Troopers... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now I want to kill all the Bugs and blow up their planet...

  3. Re:Nonsense. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's a wonderful little joke in my language, and it comes from a time of being a peoples republic:
    Capitalism is humans exploiting other humans. Communism is the reverse of that.