This research synthesis examines whether the association between print exposure and
components of reading grows stronger across development. We meta-analyzed 99 studies …

A great deal of research exists on the neural basis of theory-of-mind (ToM) or mentalizing.
Qualitative reviews on this topic have identified a mentalizing network composed of the …

Storytelling is a human universal. From gathering around the camp-fire telling tales of
ancestors to watching the latest television box-set, humans are inveterate producers and …

In the digital era, marketers increasingly use storytelling techniques to narratively transport
and persuade their customers. This paper pursues three primary objectives:(1) to integrate …

Empathy is widely regarded as relevant to a diverse range of psychopathological constructs,
such as autism spectrum disorder, psychopathy, and borderline personality disorder …

Fiction simulates the social world and invites us into the minds of characters. This has led
various researchers to suggest that reading fiction improves our understanding of others' …

To formulate a parsimonious tool to assess empathy, we used factor analysis on a
combination of self-report measures to examine consensus and developed a brief self-report …

A core brain network has been proposed to underlie a number of different processes,
including remembering, prospection, navigation, and theory of mind [Buckner, RL, & Carroll …

Fiction literature has largely been ignored by psychology researchers because its only
function seems to be entertainment, with no connection to empirical validity. We argue that …

This meta-analysis investigates the extent to which people's leisure reading may produce
better social–cognitive abilities. Researchers have hypothesized that experiences of fiction …