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How Does Fiction Reading Influence Empathy? An Experimental Investigation on the Role of Emotional Transportation

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS ONE, January 2013
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Title
How Does Fiction Reading Influence Empathy? An Experimental Investigation on the Role of Emotional Transportation
Published in
PLOS ONE, January 2013
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0055341
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Authors

P. Matthijs Bal, Martijn Veltkamp

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 3 <1%
United Kingdom 3 <1%
United States 3 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Indonesia 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Croatia 1 <1%
Philippines 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 579 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 99 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 93 16%
Student > Master 78 13%
Researcher 46 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 35 6%
Other 104 17%
Unknown 140 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 169 28%
Social Sciences 76 13%
Arts and Humanities 66 11%
Linguistics 18 3%
Medicine and Dentistry 17 3%
Other 96 16%
Unknown 153 26%