Do you want to be a more positive person? Since you\u2019re reading this blog, I bet your answer is yes. Here\u2019s something you can do that will help you have a more positive attitude toward other people and better interactions with them. And it’s something that might surprise you: Read fiction.<\/p>\n
You\u2019re probably wondering, Can an imaginary world change how we act in real life, even make us better people? <\/em>Lovers of literature (bookworms like me) have long believed so, and now neuroscientists have found evidence to back that up. It turns out that in terms of brain activity, there isn\u2019t much of a difference between reading about an experience and actually experiencing it. Studies using functional MRI (fMRI) scans have shown that a description of a movement stimulates the same region of the brain as performing that movement. For example, reading a sentence about kicking a ball lights up the part of the motor cortex that controls leg movement.<\/p>\n