Reading and Writing

"I have often analyzed how mental illness can be tracked, discovered, and understood through the written word. Let’s take a break from ...

"Laura Mickes and her team took 200Facebook stat us updates, stripped them of their context, and showed them to 32 participants alongsi...

"Can people change their minds by reading fiction? There's not a lot of systematic research on how reading fiction changes people...

As new school year approaches and recruiters will be sweeping every campus for impressionable youth it may be a good idea to recount what it...

"New research by Stanford's Joshua Landy , associate professor of French and Italian, illustrates how authors throughout the ages h...

"We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories," ...

"When it comes to figuring out crucial lessons of human behavior, timeless works of fiction are unparalleled primers. As Keith Oatley, ...

"Over the past decade, academic researchers such as Oatley and Raymond Mar from York University have gathered data indicating that fict...

Evolutionary psychology explains the root of our pursuit of artistic expression , and the intense desire to consume it, according to Denis ...

"Doctors should brush up on their Shakespeare to help improve their understanding of how the mind can affect the body, according to an ...

"Burying your head in a novel isn't just a way to escape the world: psychologists are increasingly finding that reading can affect ...

"37 percent of people say they’ve listened to an audio book, and the medium continues to become an important substitute for old-fashion...

"The question of the psychology of fiction is one that Keith Oatley, professor emeritus in the department of human development and appl...

So, you wrote a book, and want it published. You follow the established path: query literary agents, only to find, and likely to great perpl...

Couple of interesting studies: This study set out to investigate the type of media individuals are more likely to tell self-serving and othe...

The most stunning revelation in a 370-page Justice US Department Inspector General’s report released this week was that agents of the Federa...

Psychological torture (henceforth PT ) is a set of practices that are used worldwide to inflict pain or suffering without resorting to direc...