 to answer your question the dog is real what is up all you beautiful people it's Ashley here and today's little video is based on an article called reading fiction improves empathy have you ever finished a book and then felt like a better person have you ever finished a book and then felt like a more understanding person has a book ever made you cry the reading is a great hobby of mine and every single time I finish any kind of fiction book I always feel like I gained a new perspective on life and that's because studies have shown that reading fiction improves empathy what exactly is empathy the ability to understand someone's feelings and problems so studies were conducted to explore this 1,000 people were split up into four groups and these groups were popular fiction literary fiction nonfiction and no reading assignment they read excerpts pertaining to their groups and after that took a test and the test was to measure their ability to understand people's thoughts and emotions and the results are in those who were assigned to read fiction literary and popular did a lot more better than those who read nonfiction and had no reading assignment whatsoever but here's a twist between the two types of fiction literary and popular those who read literary did a little bit more better than those who read popular and why is that well it could be because of the fantastical element that's present in popular fiction but you can also find some levels of it in literary fiction so why is it that those who read literary fiction are more empathetic that is definitely something to think about comment below letting me know what kind of fiction books do you guys read and every single time you finish one of these books do you feel like you're more empathetic and that is my time thank you so much for watching this video the link to the article reading fiction improves empathy is in the description box below hi thought you saw the last of me didn't you I just wanted to remind all of you beautiful people that you can find all of our content on our website psych to go net please follow our tumblr page at psych to go dot tumblr dot com please follow us here on our YouTube channel we will be posting videos based on the articles that are available on our website please remember to give this video and all of our videos a thumbs up to show your love and support once again thank you so much for watching this video and I'll see you next time