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- Resourse from: Journal of Research in Personality Volume 40, Issue 5, October 2006, Pages 694-712
- Linking: http://www.sciencedirect.com
- TOPIC: "Bookworms versus nerds: Exposure to fiction versus non-fiction, divergent associations with social ability, and the simulation of fictional social worlds
- AUTHOR: Raymond
A. 
Mar
, a, 
, Keith Oatleya, Jacob Hirsha, Jennifer dela Paza and Jordan B. Petersona
aUniversity of Toronto, Department of Psychology, Sydney Smith Hall, 4th Floor, 100 St. George St., Toronto, Ont., Canada M5S 3G3 - Abstract: While frequent readers are often stereotyped as socially awkward, this may only be true of non-fiction readers and not readers of fiction. Comprehending characters in a narrative fiction appears to parallel the comprehension of peers in the actual world, while the comprehension of expository non-fiction shares no such parallels. Frequent fiction readers may thus bolster or maintain their social abilities unlike frequent readers of non-fiction. Lifetime exposure to fiction and non-fiction texts was examined along with performance on empathy/social-acumen measures. In general, fiction print-exposure positively predicted measures of social ability, while non-fiction print-exposure was a negative predictor. The tendency to become absorbed in a story also predicted empathy scores. Participant age, experience with English, and intelligence (g) were statistically controlled.
Keywords: Story; Narrative; Fiction; Non-fiction; Reading; Social abilities; Empathy; Theory-of-mind; Social cognition; Simulation
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