Can Reading Make You Happier?
"Bibliotherapy is a very broad term for the ancient practice of encouraging reading for therapeutic effect. The first use of the term is usually dated to a jaunty 1916 article in The Atlantic Monthly, “A Literary Clinic"…the method of bibliotherapy [can be traced] all the way back to the Ancient Greeks, “who inscribed above the entrance to a library in Thebes that this was a ‘healing place for the soul.’ ” The practice came into its own at the end of the nineteenth century, when Sigmund Freud began using literature during psychoanalysis sessions."
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/can-reading-make-you-happier
Does Reading Fiction Make Us Nicer?
"Fiction is an exercise in what psychologists call Theory of Mind. This is our ability to understand other people’s emotions and reasoning and realize that they are different from our own. When we read fiction we understand what the characters know, how they are feeling at various points in the story, and what about their experiences are causing them to feel that way."http://www.livehappy.com/science/positive-psychology/does-reading-fiction-make-us-nicer
Why reading fiction makes you a better person
“...readers' brains showed heightened connectivity in some areas, including the left temporal cortex (associated with language processing) and the central suculus, an area connected to primary sensory response, which assists in the brain's understanding of visualizing movement...Even though the participants were not actually reading the novel while they were in the scanner, they retained this heightened connectivity. We call that a ‘shadow activity,’ almost like a muscle memory,” the lead author of the study, Gregory Burns, said in a press release. So even after you have finished a book, your brain retains those benefits for some time afterwards."
http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/blogs/why-reading-fiction-makes-you-a-better-person
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