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Stories and the simulation of social experience: Neuropsychological evidence and social ramifications.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Stories and the simulation of social experience: Neuropsychological evidence and social ramifications./
Author:	Mar, Raymond Andrew.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2007,
Description:	217 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 70-04, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International70-04B.
Subject:	Personality. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NR39650
ISBN:	9780494396506

Stories and the simulation of social experience: Neuropsychological evidence and social ramifications.
Mar, Raymond Andrew.

Stories and the simulation of social experience: Neuropsychological evidence and social ramifications. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2007 - 217 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 70-04, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2007.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The processing of stories can be viewed as a simulation of experience that is specifically social in nature. Chapter 1 explores evidence for this proposal from a neuropsychological perspective. Neuroimaging and lesion research on the processing of narrative is reviewed and brain areas commonly associated with the comprehension of stories are discussed. These include a subset of brain areas that are also employed during social cognition, or the understanding of others. Chapter 2 uses this finding-that story- and social-processing appear to share a neural substrate-as a basis for the hypothesis that frequent readers of narrative fiction may improve or maintain their social abilities by simulating fictional social experiences and engaging social-cognitive brain processes. In testing this hypothesis, it is demonstrated that frequent readers of stories tend to have better social skills (in contrast to the bookworms stereotype), whereas frequent readers of expository nonfiction tend to have poorer social skills. Chapter 3 reveals that this important association between narrative fiction and social abilities cannot be explained by differences in personality. When Big Five personality traits are controlled, along with the tendency to become deeply involved with stories, the positive association between lifetime exposure to fiction and social ability remains. The bookworm stereotype is further explored in Chapter 3 by examining whether frequent readers report less social support, a smaller social network, and more loneliness, stress and depression as a result. On the whole, frequent fiction readers report more social support, whereas frequent nonfiction readers report less social support, and more stress and depression. This was especially true of male readers. In Chapter 4, the possibility that reading involves social-cognitive processes was examined more directly. Individuals randomly assigned to read a piece of narrative fiction performed better on a subsequent social-reasoning test, but not an analytical-reasoning test, compared to those assigned to read a piece of expository nonfiction. Over these four studies, then, the evidence is most consistent with the idea that reading stories leads readers into a mental simulation of social experience that involves social-cognitive processing, which may then have consequences in the actual social world.

ISBN: 9780494396506Subjects--Topical Terms:

516529
Personality.

Stories and the simulation of social experience: Neuropsychological evidence and social ramifications.
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