소설은 지어낸 이야기고, 당장 필요한 정보를 주는 것 같지도 않은데, 꼭 읽어야 합니까?

“소설은 다른 콘텐츠를 소비하는 것과 효과가 다릅니다. 소설을 읽으면, 주인공이 겪는, 색다른 경험을 따라갑니다. 주인공이 나와 다르니 공감이 필요하고, 색다른 경험은 나의 경험이 아니니 당장의 의사결정에 필요한 인지적 종결욕구를 낮추어야 합니다. 결국, 다른 사람을 이해하게 되고, 넓게 보게 됩니다.”

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– 문학 작품을 읽는 사람들의 인지적 욕구 등
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Reference

Djikic, Maja, Keith Oatley, and Mihnea C. Moldoveanu (2013), “Opening the Closed Mind: The Effect of Exposure to Literature on the Need for Closure,” Creativity Research Journal, 25(2), 149-154.

The need for cognitive closure has been found to be associated with a variety of suboptimal information processing strategies, leading to decreased creativity and rationality. This experiment tested the hypothesis that exposure to fictional short stories, as compared with exposure to nonfictional essays, will reduce need for cognitive closure. One hundred participants were assigned to read either an essay or a short story (out of a set of 8 essays and 8 short stories matched for length, reading difficulty, and interest). After reading, their need for cognitive closure was assessed. As hypothesized, when compared to participants in the essay condition, participants in the short story condition experienced a significant decrease in self-reported need for cognitive closure. The effect was particularly strong for participants who were habitual readers (of either fiction or non-fiction). These findings suggest that reading fictional literature could lead to better procedures of processing information generally, including those of creativity.