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How Literary Fiction Trumps All Other Genres When it Comes to Mentalising and Building Empathy.

How Literary Fiction Trumps All Other Genres When it Comes to Mentalising and Building Empathy.

Voicenotes from Me, Your Resident Bibliotherapist. Podcast +Transcript

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Jun 09, 2024
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Hi everyone! In today’s voice note I wanted to focus on why genre matters when building empathy or mentalising. Mentalising is essentially the ability to see and think about things from another person’s perspective. It refers to our broader cognitive ability to perceive and interpret human behaviour of others by attributing

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