 My name is Tina, also known as Tina at youtube.com, and I'm here with Psych2go today to talk to you about the article, People's Consciously Take on the Attributes of Their Favourite Fictional Characters by Cassie Hidalgo. So for me, whenever I read a piece of fiction, I end up finding myself kind of acting like the character because when I'm reading things, I'm super engrossed into it and I find myself in the mindset of the actual character and I never really understood why and although there aren't definite answers, there has been research done at Ohio State University which involved the phenomenon experience taking. Experience taking is when you're so engrossed in your reading of fiction that you find yourself in the mind of the character and so you feel and you experience what they go through as them. And so in this study, they gave people pieces of fiction to read so that they could observe the way they acted which included mannerism, speech, and thought processes and so they would observe how these people acted before, during, and after reading fiction. And what they found was that people generally started acting like the character that they were reading, which shows that experience taking can find its way to have changes in real life, but the thing is that these changes will generally be only temporary. So has this ever happened to you? If so, which characters have you experienced experience taking with? If not, do you find it hard to connect with characters on that kind of level? Let us know in the comments below. So if you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up and be sure to subscribe to Psych2Go and also check them out on Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter. And if you want to see the original article, you can read it at psych2go.net. If you want to see more of me, you can check out my channel, youtube.com, for it is Wallflower. Thanks for watching.