Associations between fiction reading, trait empathy and theory of mind ability
Abstract: Several studies suggest a link between fiction reading and Theory of Mind, a component of cognitive empathy which refers to the ability to understand other people’s mental and affective states. More frequent fiction readers perform better in tasks that require inference of intentions or...
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Asociación de Análisis del Comportamiento
2019
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EMPATIA LECTURA FICCION TEORIA DE LA MENTE |
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EMPATIA LECTURA FICCION TEORIA DE LA MENTE Tabullo, Ángel Javier Navas Jiménez, Violeta Araceli García, Claudia Silvana Associations between fiction reading, trait empathy and theory of mind ability |
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Abstract: Several studies suggest a link between fiction reading and Theory of Mind, a component of cognitive
empathy which refers to the ability to understand other people’s mental and affective states. More
frequent fiction readers perform better in tasks that require inference of intentions or emotions in
others, like the Reading the Mind in the Eyes task. In addition, subjects who read a fiction text obtain
better scores than controls reading non-fiction. Since most of this research has been conducted on
caucasic subjects, cross-cultural replication of the effect is still needed. The present study is the first
to investigate the subject in a Latin American sample (208 adults -137 females-, ranging from 18
to 59 years old (M= 27.66). We replicated the association between lifelong exposure to print fiction
and performance in the Reading the Mind in the eyes task, but the effect was only significant in
men. The association remained significant after controlling for age, education level and self-reported
Trait Empathy scores. The results are congruent with the hypothesis that reading promotes Theory
of Mind ability by engaging mentalizing processes in order to represent the thoughts and feelings
of fictional characters. The sex difference we observed had not been reported before and requires
further replication and analysis. |
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Tabullo, Ángel Javier Navas Jiménez, Violeta Araceli García, Claudia Silvana |
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Tabullo, Ángel Javier Navas Jiménez, Violeta Araceli García, Claudia Silvana |
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Tabullo, Ángel Javier |
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Associations between fiction reading, trait empathy and theory of mind ability |
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Asociación de Análisis del Comportamiento |
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