Does reading fiction help us be better people?

THE BEAUTIFUL lines in novels, movies and TV sows often have powerful effects in people's minds. Some believe reading fiction and watching TV can make them a better person. Various studies have proved this in infact true.
Fiction enhances our ability to understand other people. It promotes a deep ethicality that cuts across religious and political faiths. Many researchers have proved that fictional stories can really change our views. As the psychologist Raymond Mar writes, "Researchers have repeatedly found that reader attitudes shift to become more congruent with the ideas expressed in a (fiction) narrative."
Like books, TV shows too leave a deep impact on a person's mind. For example, when a TV serial shows how gay families are treated without judgment (say, Modern Family), our own views in homosexuality also tend to move in the same nonjudgmental direction.
Reading fiction, on the other hand, helps you to live the characters' lives. That is you are able to understand the person's personality, observe his/her ideas. Fiction reading also helps one understand what other people go through in everyday life through the characters's experiences. This, as studies have shown, can make you a more open-minded person.
Some benefits of reading fiction include learning leadership skills, understanding of human character and developing superior emotional intelligence.

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