Does reading a single passage of literary fiction really improve theory of mind? An attempt at replication

Maria Eugenia Panero, Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Jessica Black, Thalia R. Goldstein, Jennifer L. Barnes, Hiram Brownell, Ellen Winner

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2016. DOI 10.1037/pspa0000064

Has this study been replicated?

This paper is itself a replication attempt. The study it set out to replicate is listed below.

Study replicated

Reading Literary Fiction Improves Theory of Mind, Kidd & Castano (2013). Science. View paper

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Panero, M. E., Weisberg, D. S., Black, J., Goldstein, T. R., Barnes, J. L., Brownell, H., & Winner, E. (2016). Does reading a single passage of literary fiction really improve theory of mind? An attempt at replication. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 111(5), e46–e54. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000064

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