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Activities like these are referred to as the experience of fictional narratives [1], [2], and they may provide people with distraction from daily demands and possibly initiate intellectual inspiration... 0.800

👤 P. Matthijs Bal, Martijn Veltkamp 📋 Research Article 🏷️ Fiction , Narratives , Psychology

Simplified: Fictional narratives may provide distraction from daily demands initiate intellectual inspiration

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It has been suggested that people who read a lot of fiction become more empathic, because fiction is a simulation of social experiences, in which people practice and enhance their interpersonal skills... 0.700

👤 P. Matthijs Bal, Martijn Veltkamp 📋 Research Article 🏷️ Fiction , Empathy , Psychology

Simplified: People reading fiction may become more empathic fiction simulates social experiences

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Sum of Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and Wikipedia activity. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Research Article 🏷️ Facebook , Twitter , Reddit , Wikipedia , Social Media

Simplified: Facebook Twitter Reddit Wikipedia track activity

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Paper's citation count computed by Dimensions. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Research Article 🏷️ Citation , Dimensions

Simplified: Dimensions computes paper's citation count

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Total Mendeley and Citeulike bookmarks. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Research Article 🏷️ Mendeley , Citeulike , Bookmarks

Simplified: Mendeley and Citeulike track bookmarks

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PLoS views and downloads. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Research Article 🏷️ PLOS , Website

Simplified: PLOS tracks views and downloads

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The study showed that fiction influences empathy of the reader, but only under the condition of low or high emotional transportation into the story. 0.900

👤 P. Matthijs Bal, Martijn Veltkamp 📋 Research Article 🏷️ Psychology , Empathy , Fiction , Reading

Simplified: Fiction influences empathy only under low or high emotional transportation

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These effects were not found for people in the control condition where people read non-fiction. 0.900

👤 P. Matthijs Bal, Martijn Veltkamp 📋 Research Article 🏷️ Psychology , Empathy , Non-Fiction , Reading

Simplified: Effects were not found for people reading non-fiction in the control condition

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No transportation led to lower empathy in both studies, while study 1 showed that high transportation led to higher empathy among fiction readers. 0.900

👤 P. Matthijs Bal, Martijn Veltkamp 📋 Research Article 🏷️ Psychology , Empathy , Fiction , Reading

Simplified: No transportation led to lower empathy in both studies high transportation led to higher empathy in study 1

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Two experiments showed that empathy was influenced over a period of one week for people who read a fictional story, but only when they were emotionally transported into the story. 0.900

👤 P. Matthijs Bal, Martijn Veltkamp 📋 Research Article 🏷️ Psychology , Empathy , Fiction , Reading

Simplified: Empathy was influenced over one week for people reading fiction when emotionally transported

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While no authors can claim to exhaust a topic, our goal was to conduct as systematic an evaluation as possible of how one form of literature—fiction—impacts on mental health, while allowing for the di... 0.500

👤 James Carney, Cole Robertson 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: Goal was to conduct systematic evaluation of how fiction impacts mental health allowing for different modes of encounter

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We chose fiction for the simple reason that most people experience literature through fiction, so any results would have the widest applicability. 0.500

👤 James Carney, Cole Robertson 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: Fiction chosen because most people experience literature through fiction results would have widest applicability

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These considerations, in combination with the intellectual importance of establishing the relation between culture and mental health, are what motivated us to assess the therapeutic value of literatur... 0.500

👤 James Carney, Cole Robertson 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: Considerations motivated authors to assess therapeutic value of literature via five studies

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Finally, even conceding that literature (by whatever definition) has a positive impact on mental health, there remains an explanatory gap concerning what causal mechanisms may meditate or moderate thi... 0.500

👤 James Carney, Cole Robertson 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: Explanatory gap remains concerning causal mechanisms mediating or moderating impact of literature on mental health

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Even if this were not the case, it would remain unlikely that literature would impact in the same way upon the 297 or so disorders that the DSM 5 defines as constituting the repertoire of mental illne... 0.500

👤 James Carney, Cole Robertson 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: Literature unlikely to impact in same way upon 297 disorders defined by DSM 5

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It is not at all clear, for instance, that there is any common feature underlying the heterogenous collection of works, genres and individual styles that comprise what is generally accepted as literat... 0.500

👤 James Carney, Cole Robertson 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: There is no common feature underlying heterogenous collection of works genres and styles that comprise literature

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Most obviously, terms like ‘literature’ and ‘mental health’ need to be clearly defined. 0.500

👤 James Carney, Cole Robertson 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: Terms like literature and mental health need to be clearly defined

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If so, creative bibliotherapy violates the very first injunction of therapeutic intervention—to do no harm. 0.500

👤 James Carney, Cole Robertson 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: Creative bibliotherapy violates first injunction of therapeutic intervention to do no harm

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However, results do not seem to generalise, with a meta-analysis by Montgomery and Maunders [26] finding only minor evidence for the efficacy of creative bibliotherapy in addressing PTSD, and Glavin a... 0.500

👤 James Carney, Cole Robertson 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: Results do not generalize meta-analysis found only minor evidence for efficacy of creative bibliotherapy in addressing PTSD

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Perhaps most worryingly, Troscianko [17] presents evidence that readers with eating disorders recall having their symptoms exacerbated by fiction that thematises the experience of having an eating dis... 0.500

👤 James Carney, Cole Robertson 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: Readers with eating disorders recall having symptoms exacerbated by fiction thematizing eating disorders

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