to the tools of textual analysis—and whole text, both fiction and nonfiction—is an essential first step (Seravallo, 2012; 2013). Closing Thoughts Kidd and Comer (2013) note the role of fiction to “promote social welfare,” such as developing empathy in doctors and life skills in prisoners. Fiction has been, of course, the mainstay of secondary English coursework. For this reason, some question the push-away from fiction to embrace as much as 70 percent nonfiction in high school. Kidd and Comer end with this challenge: Debates over the social value of types of fiction and the arts more broadly are important, and it seems critical to supplement them with empirical research. These results show that reading literary fiction may hone adults’ ToM [Theory of the Mind], a complex and critical social capacity.
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