Your Brain On Fiction - How the Content You Consume Changes You

If you're interested in joining my new book club, you can find more information here: https://www.hilarylayne.com/p/coming-... I hope you can join us! The topic of how fiction media influences us is a large and complicated one. I've been touching on it in small ways for some time, but I decided to devote some serious time to understanding it and (I hope) explaining it here. 0:00 - Intro 2:48 - Do Video Games Cause Violence? 7:08 - Real Vs. Fake 10:31 - Fiction & Our Perception of Reality 26:20 - Propaganda 27:55 - (Passive Vs. Active and Show Don't Tell) 33:36 - Repetition and Attentional Capture 42:55 - Attributional Complexity 45:04 - Fiction as (negative) Formation 47:53 - Desensitization 53:24 - What About P*rn? 57:24 - Imitation of Fiction 1:01:48 - Fiction as Positive Formation! 1:04:11 - (Smarter) Reading Can Make You Smarter 1:08:53 - Conclusion