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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. I became a better person... by Mr.+Firewall · · Score: -1, Troll

    ... when I read Atlas Shrugged and learned to empathize with others a lot LESS.

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  2. Re:Nonsense. by I'm+New+Around+Here · · Score: -1, Troll

    Mod parent up!

    For parroting something that someone else thought of? Something that required no mental activity other than Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, Submit?

    Yeah, great way to emphasize my point about what makes you a "better person".

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