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humanodon  ·  4059 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Reading literary fiction greatly enhances performance on Theory of Mind tests

    Don't insult me by saying that people who mostly read nonfiction are therefore more likely to be robotic automatons who can't experience love. If anything it's the other way around.

I don't follow your line of thought. Why would reading nonfiction make someone more able to experience love?





user-inactivated  ·  4059 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Sorry, bad wording. If anything, someone who has a sort of "robotic" personality would be more likely to read mostly nonfiction. I've observed this personally.

humanodon  ·  4059 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ah ok, I thought you were saying the opposite.