OnFiction

The effect of reading on a person’s morality has been a topic of debate for decades, with people raising arguments that it either helps or h...

With the growing popularity of video games, developers bear a heavier responsibility to ensure that their games do not foster toxicity and u...

Mental health is a pressing concern for university students, with increasing numbers of students seeking mental health services in recent ye...

Although a great deal of research has examined whether stories help to promote social cognition, most of this work has been on adults and no...

Over the years the writers of articles for OnFiction have argued that short stories and novels, as well as plays, films, and nowadays some v...

Humans spend vast amounts of time engaging with fictional stories. There are four main theories that help to explain this love for fiction. ...

Theory of Mind, or mentalizing, is an aspect of cognitive empathy that refers to the ability to understand that others have mental states an...

  It’s hard to think of a more appropriate novel for OnFiction than  The Reading List  by Sara Nisha Adams. It’s about how readers can enter...

O n Wednesday, just before midnight. Angela, a night nurse in a hospice, came to see Phillipa, who had cancer.  After they’d talked a bit, A...

The idea of “schema” was central to Frederic Bartlett’s book of 1932,   Remembering, where  he described a series of experiments in which pe...

In his latest novel,  Klara and the Sun,  Kazuo Ishiguro reaches beyond what occurs in most fiction. This novel’s protagonist, Klara, is a r...

Birte Thissen, with colleagues Winfried Menninghaus (Director of the Department of Language and Literature at the Max Planck Institute for E...