Mind: Reading Fiction Impacts Aggressive Behavior

Not just violent video games ...

Reading aggression in literature can influence subsequent aggressive behavior, which tends to be specific to the type of aggression contained in the story, a Brigham Young University research team led by Sarah M. Coyne writes in the British Journal of Social Psychology.

For more, see Reading Fiction Impacts Aggressive Behavior by Tom Jacobs, September 7, 2011 at Miller-McCune.