Nursing research is rapidly increasing, yet contributions from numerous countries that may
interest the international nursing community are impeded because many research articles …

Scholars from diverse disciplines have proposed that reading fiction improves
intersubjective capacities. Experiments have yielded mixed evidence that reading literary …

1 AIM AND SCOPE Ever since ancient times, mankind faces questions about self and
others: who are we, and how do we relate to other people? Where are the boundaries …

Abstract The Dutch Institute for Curriculum Development argues that literature education is
important for broadening students' personal, social and cultural horizons. Indeed, reading …

Reading literary fiction might be more beneficial for fostering social–cognitive skills (ie,
theory of mind and empathy) than reading popular fiction. However, the superiority of literary …

This essay investigates the phenomenon of “embedded” mental states in fiction (ie, a mental
state within a mental state within yet another mental state, as in,“Mrs. Banks wished that …

A large number of investigations have highlighted the importance of incorporating literary
texts into English language teaching programs. Nevertheless, there are scarce studies on …

Explores how and why narrative fiction engages empathy, including Theory of MindOffers a
broad overview of current scientific work on the effects of fiction-reading on empathy …

This article examines the emotional dimension in both image and text in two Swedish picture
books: Gittan och gråvargarna and Stackars Pettson. To this end, a multimodal discourse …

This chapter presses the still open empirical question of the construct validity of “literary
experience,” encouraging collective efforts to determine in what exactly literary experience …