How literary fiction sharpens your ‘mindreading’ skills

[ad_1] At the beginning of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen’s most well-known novel, the protagonist, Elizabeth Bennet, overhears Mr Darcy speaking ill of her. This, naturally, leads her to form a negative opinion of him. ‘She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me’. Mr Darcy speaks without realising that the subject of his […]

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