Pavlína Lenochová, Department of Anthropology, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, Pavla Vohnoutová, S Craig Roberts, School of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom, Elisabeth Oberzaucher, Department of Anthropology, University Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Karl Grammer, Jan Havlíček
The current study investigated whether fiction experiences change empathy of the reader. Based on transportation theory, it was predicted that when people read fiction, and they are emotionally transported into the story, they become more empathic. ...
Journal of Education for Library and Information Science·2023·2 citations
<jats:p> This article argues that the MLIS curriculum should offer information ethics courses that enable future information professionals to develop their imaginative powers through close study and discussion of fiction. LIS students reading ethical theory and fiction bring the two into conversation and as a result reach a better understanding of both. Crucially, this process presupposes the exercise of empathetic imagination, a mental capacity that helps us inhabit other perspectives and modes of being in the world. The paper supports this discussion with evidence from an instructional intervention implemented during an information ethics course within an LIS program at a large public research university. </jats:p>