{"id":18375,"date":"2014-01-10T19:02:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T19:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/theory-of-mind-is-the-human-capacity-to-comprehend-2\/"},"modified":"2014-01-10T19:02:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T19:02:56","slug":"theory-of-mind-is-the-human-capacity-to-comprehend-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/theory-of-mind-is-the-human-capacity-to-comprehend-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Theory of Mind is the human capacity to comprehend that other people hold beliefs and desires and that these may differ from one\u2019s own beliefs and desires. The currently predominant view is that literary fiction\u2014often described as narratives that focus on in-depth portrayals of subjects\u2019 inner feelings and thoughts\u2014can be linked to theory of mind processes, especially those that are involved in the understanding or simulation of the affective characteristics of the subjects. [Scientists] provide experimental evidence that reading passages of literary fiction, in comparison to nonfiction or popular fiction, does indeed enhance the reader\u2019s performance on theory of mind tasks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/342\/6156\/377.abstract\">There we have it:<\/a> Reading literary fiction improves Theory of Mind. Pair with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2013\/06\/07\/judith-butler-mcgill-2013-commencement-address\/\">Judith Butler on reading as a tool of empathy<\/a>.\u00a0 (via <a href=\"http:\/\/explore.noodle.org\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">explore-blog<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theory of Mind is the human capacity to comprehend that other people hold beliefs and desires and that these may differ from one\u2019s own beliefs and desires. The currently predominant view is that literary fiction\u2014often described as narratives that focus on in-depth portrayals of subjects\u2019 inner feelings and thoughts\u2014can be linked to theory of mind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4Mn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}