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The effect of reading on a person’s morality has been a topic of debate for decades, with people raising arguments that it either helps or h...

With the growing popularity of video games, developers bear a heavier responsibility to ensure that their games do not foster toxicity and u...

Although a great deal of research has examined whether stories help to promote social cognition, most of this work has been on adults and no...

Over the years the writers of articles for OnFiction have argued that short stories and novels, as well as plays, films, and nowadays some v...

Theory of Mind, or mentalizing, is an aspect of cognitive empathy that refers to the ability to understand that others have mental states an...

In a recent article,   John Foxwell, Ben Alderson-Day, Charles Fernyhough and Angela Woods (2020) report on a survey of writers’ experi...

In OnFiction’s series of television series, we ought perhaps to have started with the series that really started it all: “The Wire.” It w...

As with sonnets, some short stories have turning points. Andrea Levy’s “Deborah” has three. This story begins with a depiction of childho...

In 2016, when it was published in Norway, Vigdis Hjorth’s novel,  Will and Testament,  became a best-seller. Last year it came out in Eng...

In trying to find out what makes a piece of fiction ‘literary’, Chris Gavaler and Dan Johnson of Washington and Lee University dove int...

Although storybooks have long been used to teach moral messages to children, most research suggests that young children do not actually ex...