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theatlantic: If We Are What We Read, Who Are We, Exactly? We love books for being books. But books are more than just words on pages, lovely or terrible adventures, weird imaginings, plot twists and romances and things that would never happen to us in real life and therefore we should read about. Books have the power to change us—but not just in our minds, apparently. According to research recently published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology by Geoff Kaufman of Tiltfactor Laboratories at Dartmouth College and Lisa Libby of Ohio State, the act of reading of and identifying with a fictional character means also that we tend to subconsciously adopt their behavior. In reading about our favorite characters, we may actually become more like them. Read more at The Atlantic Wire. [Image: Shutterstock]

theatlantic:

If We Are What We Read, Who Are We, Exactly?

We love books for being books. But books are more than just words on pages, lovely or terrible adventures, weird imaginings, plot twists and romances and things that would never happen to us in real life and therefore we should read about. Books have the power to change us—but not just in our minds, apparently. According to research recently published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology by Geoff Kaufman of Tiltfactor Laboratories at Dartmouth College and Lisa Libby of Ohio State, the act of reading of and identifying with a fictional character means also that we tend to subconsciously adopt their behavior. In reading about our favorite characters, we may actually become more like them.

Read more at The Atlantic Wire. [Image: Shutterstock]

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animalstalkinginallcaps: YOU GUYS, SERIOUSLY! THE INSTRUCTIONS SPECIFICALLY SAID DON’T GRAB YOUR COATS AND LAPTOPS AND TO MOVE QUICKLY BUT WITHOUT PANICKING! IF THIS WAS A REAL FIRE AND NOT A DRILL YOU WOULDN’T BE TWITTERING AND STUFF! YEAH WE WOULD. WE’D ACTUALLY BE SLOWER. FIRE WOULD LOOK SO COOL WITH INSTAGRAM.

animalstalkinginallcaps:

YOU GUYS, SERIOUSLY! THE INSTRUCTIONS SPECIFICALLY SAID DON’T GRAB YOUR COATS AND LAPTOPS AND TO MOVE QUICKLY BUT WITHOUT PANICKING! IF THIS WAS A REAL FIRE AND NOT A DRILL YOU WOULDN’T BE TWITTERING AND STUFF!

YEAH WE WOULD.

WE’D ACTUALLY BE SLOWER. FIRE WOULD LOOK SO COOL WITH INSTAGRAM.

“I could easily get an Oscar for sleeping”   LOVE IT.   She is one of my favorites.

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