Excellent. OSU research confirms that I'm becoming more and more like Tyrion Lannister with each book I read. What fictional character would you most like to borrow from?
COLUMBUS, Ohio - When you “lose yourself” inside the world of a fictional character while reading a story, you may actually end up changing your own behavior and thoughts to match that of the character, a new study suggests.
Researchers at Ohio State University examined what happened to people who, while reading a fictional story, found themselves feeling the emotions, thoughts, beliefs and internal responses of one of the characters as if they were their own - a phenomenon the researchers call “experience-taking.”
They found that, in the right situations, experience-taking may lead to real changes, if only temporary, in the lives of readers.
In one experiment, for example, the researchers found that people who strongly identified with a fictional character who overcame obstacles to vote were significantly more likely to vote in a real election several days later.
Support for the argument that violent movies/video games are partially to blame for violent actions, if you can make the leap from fictional characters in a book to fictional characters on a TV. Interesting.
Does this mean I should go back and try to enjoy the JB SHugarts era subconsciously cuz it'll help me start my day early? Food for thought...
When told OSU set school record for 50+ games this year, UFM said "That's good. We're gonna break that next year."
Feel like that's apples and oranges. Books allow you to gain insight into inner workings of the mind, feelings, thought process, etc. Video games are about using an avatar to accomplish a task. Movies MAY be a bit of a parallel, but in that case it's hard to really get a firm melding, if you will, into the character. The bits that make books more user-friendly are absent from the movies, i.e. emotional connections, thoughts, dreams, etc. Though the whole Avatar-depression syndrome some people apparently felt could throw that out of whack.
WOW... that confirms it, I'm passing out copies of E.L. James to all my close female friends!
Jay Gatz because he sure was the bees' knees
Taquitos.
Am I the only one who read the title and expected a story on Chad Johnson being cut from the Dolphins?
Any ladies reading 50 Shades of Gray (not exactly sure what the book is about) holler at me!!
@Kareem it's essentially a trilogy of soft-core porn..
Hmm, works for me.