Mar 16, 2015
Study: Using metaphor helps us understand each other's minds
Metaphor makes you more empathetic, it seems: When subjects in a new study read metaphors, they got better at identifing the emotion in pictures of people’s eyes.
Lately, novelists have been smugly thrilled by several studies finding that when we read fiction, we become more empathetic — better able to develop a “theory of mind” of other people, to grok their emotions and perspective. It’s…
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