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8. Research done at Ohio State University suggest that when people read about a fictional story a phenomenon known now as “experience-taking”. For the purpose of this study, researchers observed and cataloged how people acted before, during, and after having read some sort of fiction. They cataloged mannerism, speech, and thought processes and found that people literally began acting like their character (Tassi 2012).

References

Tassi, Paul. “New Study Says We Take on the Traits of Our Favorite Fictional

Characters.” Forbes. N.p., 2012. Web. 2014.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2012/08/14/new-study-says-we-take-on-the-traits-of-our-favorite-fictional-characters/