{"id":136,"date":"2014-01-07T19:48:01","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T18:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/?p=136"},"modified":"2014-01-07T19:48:01","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T18:48:01","slug":"new-research-and-articles-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/2014\/01\/07\/new-research-and-articles-of-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"New research and articles of interest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kidd, D., & Castano, E. (2013). Reading literary fiction improves theory of mind. Science<\/abbr> 18 October 2013:
\nVol. 342 no. 6156 pp. 377-380\u00a0 <\/cite>http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/342\/6156\/377.short<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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There is also an interesting Press Release about this research from the New School in New York City:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.newschool.edu\/pressroom\/pressreleases\/2013\/CastanoKidd.htm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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The article and the press release both refer to ToM Theory of Mind.\u00a0 Here is a brief description of what this term actually means:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.howstuffworks.com\/theory-of-mind.htm<\/a>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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Another older piece of research:
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Bookworms versus nerds: Exposure to fiction versus non-fiction, divergent associations with social ability, and the simulation of fictional social worlds<\/span>.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0Authors:<\/span>\u00a0 <\/em><\/span><\/span>Raymond A. Mar<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<\/span> Keith Oatley<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0 Jacob Hirsh<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0 Jennifer dela Paz<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0 Jordan B. Peterson<\/span><\/a>. published by the University of Toronto in 2006.\u00a0http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S009265660500053X<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kidd, D., & Castano, E. (2013). Reading literary fiction improves theory of mind. Science 18 October 2013: Vol. 342 no. 6156 pp. 377-380\u00a0 http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/342\/6156\/377.short   There is also an interesting Press Release about this research from the New School in New York City: http:\/\/www.newschool.edu\/pressroom\/pressreleases\/2013\/CastanoKidd.htm   The article and the press release both refer to ToM […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}