Why You Find Pleasure in Fiction by Paul Bloom, Professor of Psychology, Yale University

What explains the universal human love of fiction, even horror fiction? Paul Bloom believes it’s an evolved preference that helped our ancestors survive a variety of real-world scenarios.

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