More theft: I steal this time from the Boston Globe
-- http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2012/04/28/why-fiction-good-for-you-how-fiction-changes-your-world/nubDy1P3viDj2PuwGwb3KO/story.html
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"Studies show that when we read non-fiction, we read with our shields up. We are critical and sceptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard."
2.
"Fiction enhances our ability to understand other people; it promotes a deep morality that cuts across religious and political creeds. More peculiarly, fiction's happy endings seem to warp our sense of reality. They make us believe in a lie: that the world is more just than it actually is. But believing that lie has important effects for society and it may even help explain why humans tell stories in the first place."
3.
"...fiction serves the function of making the world a better place by improving interpersonal understanding."
4.
"As people who watch the news know very well, bad things happen to good people all the time, and most crimes go unpunished. In other words, fiction seems to teach us to see the world through rose-coloured lenses. And the fact that we see the world that way seems to be an important part of what makes human societies work."
-- http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2012/04/28/why-fiction-good-for-you-how-fiction-changes-your-world/nubDy1P3viDj2PuwGwb3KO/story.html
1.
"Studies show that when we read non-fiction, we read with our shields up. We are critical and sceptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard."
2.
"Fiction enhances our ability to understand other people; it promotes a deep morality that cuts across religious and political creeds. More peculiarly, fiction's happy endings seem to warp our sense of reality. They make us believe in a lie: that the world is more just than it actually is. But believing that lie has important effects for society and it may even help explain why humans tell stories in the first place."
3.
"...fiction serves the function of making the world a better place by improving interpersonal understanding."
4.
"As people who watch the news know very well, bad things happen to good people all the time, and most crimes go unpunished. In other words, fiction seems to teach us to see the world through rose-coloured lenses. And the fact that we see the world that way seems to be an important part of what makes human societies work."
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