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Engaging with many forms of nonfiction would probably have similar benefits, he said. 0.700

👤 James Carney 📋 News Article 🏷️ Reading , Mental Health , Social Interaction

Simplified: Engaging with nonfiction would probably have similar benefits

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But discussing and reflecting on fiction — as opposed to just reading it — was linked to better mental health and social capabilities, including the ability to perceive nuances in interpersonal relati... 0.800

👤 James Carney 📋 News Article 🏷️ Reading , Mental Health , Social Interaction

Simplified: Discussing and reflecting on fiction was linked to better mental health and social capabilities

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“As we’re living in this really complex and really challenging time, we really need to be intentional about the ways in which we support our health,” Dr. Sonke said. 0.700

👤 Jill Sonke 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health , Well-being

Simplified: Be intentional about supporting health

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People may draw particular benefits from thinking deeply about what they read and talking about it with others. 0.700

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Reading , Mental Health , Social Interaction

Simplified: Think deeply about what you read and talk about it with others

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Research indicates that reading can have a wide range of benefits for educational attainment, reasoning and comprehension skills, imagination, empathy, mental health, cognitive health and more. 0.800

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Reading , Education , Mental Health , Cognitive Health

Simplified: Reading can benefit educational attainment reasoning comprehension imagination empathy mental health cognitive health

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The researchers also found that, while more than 20 percent of people surveyed had a child under 9 years old, only 2 percent of those surveyed read with a child — a finding that stayed largely flat th... 0.900

👤 Researchers 📋 News Article 🏷️ Reading , Children , Demographics

Simplified: Only 2 percent of people surveyed read with a child under 9 years old

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For example, in 2023, the most highly educated people were more than twice as likely to read as the least educated, and high-income people were about 1.5 times as likely to read as low-income people. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Reading , Education , Income , Demographics

Simplified: In 2023 highly educated people were twice as likely to read as least educated people

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Over the 20 years the researchers analyzed, more than 236,000 Americans completed the survey. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Survey , Demographics

Simplified: Over 236000 Americans completed the survey over 20 years

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Many previous studies’ results could be questioned because they didn’t explicitly account for e-books and audiobooks, said Daisy Fancourt, a co-author of the study and a professor of psychobiology and... 0.700

👤 Daisy Fancourt 📋 News Article 🏷️ Research , Reading

Simplified: Previous studies may be questionable because they didn't account for e-books and audiobooks

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The decline in reading could have implications for Americans’ learning, relationships and overall well-being, the researchers said. 0.700

👤 Researchers 📋 News Article 🏷️ Reading , Learning , Relationships , Well-being

Simplified: Decline in reading could affect Americans' learning relationships and well-being

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There is evidence that reading for pleasure has been declining since the 1940s, the researchers said, but they called the size of the latest decrease “surprising,” given that the study defined reading... 0.800

👤 Researchers 📋 News Article 🏷️ Reading , History

Simplified: Reading for pleasure has been declining since the 1940s

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It declined around 3 percent each year over those two decades. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Reading , Trends

Simplified: Reading declined around 3 percent each year 2003 to 2023

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Researchers from University College London and the University of Florida examined national data from 2003 to 2023 and found that the share of people who reported reading for pleasure on a given day fe... 0.950

👤 Researchers from University College London and the University of Florida 📋 News Article 🏷️ Reading , Research

Simplified: Researchers found reading for pleasure fell to 16 percent in 2023 from 28 percent in 2004

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From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40 percent, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Reading , Demographics , Trends

Simplified: Americans' reading for pleasure fell 40 percent 2003 to 2023

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The Literacy group showed differential gains in working memory, t(57) = 1.69, p = 0.048 (one-tailed), d = 0.43, and a trend for gains in episodic memory, t(57) = 1.62, p = 0.055 (one-tailed), d = 0.42... 0.800

👤 The author 📋 Research Article 🏷️ Cognition , Memory , Aging

Simplified: Literacy group showed gains in working memory and a trend for gains in episodic memory

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The Literacy Engagement group showed increased sentence wrap-up at post-test relative to pre-test (i.e., change was greater than zero), t(30) = 2.05, p = 0.049, d = 0.37 for the ITT analysis, and t(27... 0.800

👤 The author 📋 Research Article 🏷️ Cognition , Language , Aging

Simplified: Literacy engagement group showed increased sentence wrap-up at post-test relative to pre-test

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Participants were asked to spend 90 min per day, 5 days a week, across 8 weeks in their assigned activity. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Research Article 🏷️ Research , Aging

Simplified: Participants spent 90 minutes per day 5 days a week for 8 weeks in assigned activity

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As shown in the CONSORT diagram in Figure 1, 76 adults (60–79 years of age; M = 68.7, SD = 5.7) agreed to randomization. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Research Article 🏷️ Research Participants , Aging

Simplified: 76 adults 60–79 years old agreed to randomization

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Retention in the program for the Literacy group was 79%; and for the Control, 66%. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Research Article 🏷️ Research , Aging

Simplified: Literacy group retention was 79% control group retention was 66%

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However, data collection was prematurely discontinued because of the COVID-19 pandemic. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Research Article 🏷️ Research , COVID-19

Simplified: Data collection was discontinued because of the COVID-19 pandemic

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