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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021

Exposure to Literary Fiction Is Associated With Lower Psychological Essentialism.

Emanuele Castano, Maria Paola Paladino, Olivia G Cadwell, Valentina Cuccio, Pietro Perconti

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Emanuele CastanoDepartment of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.
Maria Paola PaladinoDepartment of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.
Olivia G CadwellDepartment of Psychology, The New School, New York City, NY, United States.
Valentina CuccioCOSPECS, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
Pietro PercontiCOSPECS, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We investigated the impact of exposure to literary and popular fiction on psychological essentialism. Exposure to fiction was measured by using the Author Recognition Test, which allows us to separate exposure to authors of literary and popular fiction. Psychological essentialism was assessed by the discreteness subscale of the psychological essentialism scale in Study 1, and by the three subscales of the same scale (such as discreteness, informativeness, and biological basis) in Study 2 that was pre-registered. Results showed that exposure to literary fiction negatively predicts the three subscales. The results emerged controlling for political ideology, a variable that is commonly associated with psychological essentialism, and level of education.

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cognitive literary theoryfiction (narrative)linguistic inferencesliterary fictionpsychological essentialismsocial cognitiontheory of mind

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PMID34168593
PMCPMC8217818

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