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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 🏷️ Psychology , Fiction , Narratives

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 🏷️ Psychology , Empathy , Fiction

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

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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 🏷️ Reading , Psychology , Empathy , Fiction

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

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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 🏷️ Reading , Psychology , Empathy , Fiction

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 🏷️ Reading , Psychology , Empathy , Fiction

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

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The author of “The Lesser Bohemians” returns to that novel’s protagonists, exploring the next chapter of their love story in 1990s London. 1.000

👤 Eimear McBride 📋 Travel Blog 🏷️ Book , Fiction

Simplified: The City Changes Its Face explores love story in 1990s London

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Alice, a Magick Ph.D. student at the University of Cambridge who accidentally killed her professor, must travel to the underworld to save his soul. 1.000

👤 R.F. Kuang 📋 Travel Blog 🏷️ Book , Fiction

Simplified: Katabasis features Alice traveling to underworld to save professor's soul

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Greenwood, a former war correspondent, skewers the news industry in her debut novel, set in Gaza during the brief but intense conflict of late 2012. 1.000

👤 Phoebe Greenwood 📋 Travel Blog 🏷️ Book , Fiction

Simplified: Vulture skewers news industry set in Gaza during 2012 conflict

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Two married, middle-aged writing professors at a New England college engage in simultaneous extramarital affairs in Adrian’s engrossing debut. 1.000

👤 Emily Adrian 📋 Travel Blog 🏷️ Book , Fiction

Simplified: Seduction Theory features writing professors engaging in affairs at New England college

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The first adult novel by the author of “Holes” is a fantasy fable about a pair of star-crossed lovers and the klutzy sorcerer who tries to help them. 1.000

👤 Louis Sachar 📋 Travel Blog 🏷️ Book , Fiction

Simplified: The Magician of Tiger Castle is adult novel by author of Holes about star-crossed lovers and sorcerer

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Mott’s new novel alternates between two Black writers — one visiting a Minnesota college stricken by tragedy, the other living it up in Europe. 1.000

👤 Jason Mott 📋 Travel Blog 🏷️ Book , Fiction

Simplified: People Like Us alternates between Black writers in Minnesota college and Europe

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Two ex-servicemen accept an assignment from a shadowy global network, hoping to make a cool million and get out of their professional ruts. 1.000

👤 Elliot Ackerman 📋 Travel Blog 🏷️ Book , Fiction

Simplified: Sheepdogs features ex-servicemen accepting assignment from global network for a million dollars

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A young, newly married Indian couple find themselves living among the descendants of white settlers on Indigenous land in Montana. 1.000

👤 Shobha Rao 📋 Travel Blog 🏷️ Book , Fiction

Simplified: Indian Country features Indian couple living among white settlers on Indigenous land in Montana

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This thriller follows Allison at two stages in life: as a college student in a cultlike theater troupe, and as a middle-aged drama teacher fleeing her past. 1.000

👤 Alexis Soloski 📋 Travel Blog 🏷️ Book , Fiction

Simplified: Flashout follows Allison as college student in theater troupe and middle-aged drama teacher

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In 1700s England, the town of Little Nettlebed is scandalized by a rumor: that the five Mansfield sisters are transforming into a pack of dogs at night. 1.000

👤 Xenobe Purvis 📋 Travel Blog 🏷️ Book , Fiction

Simplified: In 1700s England Little Nettlebed is scandalized by rumor of Mansfield sisters transforming into dogs

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