The effects of reading material on social and non-social cognition
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Studies comparing fiction and non-fiction used fictional narratives on the one hand and expository non-fiction on the other, leaving it open whether the effects are due to narrativity or fictionality.
“Those which compared fiction and non-fiction used fictional narratives on the one hand and expository non-fiction on the other (e.g., Black & Barnes, 2015;Johnson et al., 2013b), leaving it open whether the effects are due to narrativity or fictionality.”
From The effects of reading narrative fiction on social and moral cognition (2021) · cites this paper as Black & Barnes, 2015
Because the brevity of reading interventions would have provoked test-retest effects in a pre-post design, social and moral cognitive abilities were tested between text conditions after the reading assignment only.
“Due to the brevity of reading interventions, a pre-post design would have provoked test-retest effects.Therefore, we adopted the approach employed by most similar previous studies (e.g.Black & Barnes, 2015;Chlebuch et al., 2020;Koopman, 2016;Liu & Want, 2015), testing social and moral cognitive abilities between text conditions after the reading assignment only.”
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- Authors
- Black, J. E., & Barnes, J. L.
- Affiliations
- University of Oklahoma (US)
- Corresponding author
- Black, Jessica E.
- Venue
- Poetics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-10
- Volume
- 52
- Pages
- 32-43
- ISSN
- 0304-422X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W970208735
- Cited by
- 101
- References
- 14
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 13 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 29.47
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Poetics (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Media Influence and Health
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Narrative Theory and Analysis
- Keywords
- fiction reading, literary fiction, nonfiction, theory of mind, intuitive physics, social cognition, reading effects
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