How Reading Reshapes Your Brain

Reading fiction improves our ethical and empathetic skills

Reading fiction  immersing yourself in the life of another and seeing the world through their eyes  has always anecdotally been good for broadening ones outlook. But now theres hard science to say it actually makes us more empathetic. To be fair, the study (done, again, at Emory, who are doing a lot of work on books and their interaction with the brain) focused entirely on the kind of fiction thats explicitly about character, from...