Here is a bit more from the replication paper.pic.twitter.com/q7XHYcC6Bk
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Your 1st tweet seems to be inaccurate. Reading DOES improve theory of mind etc over the long term, not in the extreme short term.
That study was massively trumpeted in the media. Wonder if they will correct: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/i-know-how-youre-feeling-i-read-chekhov/?_r=1 … https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/novel-finding-reading-literary-fiction-improves-empathy/ …
If you make psychopaths read literary fiction, it won't make them empathic.
We need to take care not to throw the babies out with the bathwater as we rectify the publication record.
Only read the abstract but the “author recognition test” part suggests otherwise. The press friendly bit of Kidd & Castano 1/2
Author recogn & Reading the Mind in the Eyes tests expected to correlate as both measure IQ:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229065796_The_Eyes_Test_as_a_Measure_of_Individual_Differences_How_much_of_the_Variance_Reflects_Verbal_IQ …
Enormous resources poured into refuting a claim that was almost literally incredible. We need to use resources better!
Well, that explains Literature departments.
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