The new James Bond movie, titled Spectre, was announced this week, and the Internet exploded with anticipation! Why does everyone love fictional characters so much?
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Do Fictional Characters Affect Our Real Life?
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"In a recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, "Old, Boring, White and Mean: How Professors Appear on the Small Screen," the author Jenny Rodgers proposes that most fictional television portrayals of professors are quite narrow, as the title of her article states."
Your Brain on Fiction
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"AMID the squawks and pings of our digital devices, the old-fashioned virtues of reading novels can seem faded, even futile. But new support for the value of fiction is arriving from an unexpected quarter: neuroscience."
Lonely Hearts Find Comfort in TV Characters
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"Don't feel delusional for turning to favorite television characters on 'Lost' or 'Brothers and Sisters' for comfort - new research suggests that such illusory relationships can buffer people against loneliness or sadness."
James Bond Likely To Die An Early Death Of Alcoholism, Study Finds
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"In the ever-wacky Christmas issue of the journal BMJ, three British scientists have studied James Bond's drinking habits and come to the conclusion that Bond was indeed a raging alcoholic."
Mirror Neurons and Why We Love Cinema: A Conversation with Vittorio Gallese and Michele Guerra in Parma
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"Famed Italian neuroscientist Vittorio Gallese, one of the discoverers of 'mirror neurons', straddles many fields of knowledge in his pioneering research."
Weepie or action movie? It's in the hormones, says study
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"A romantic film sends the audience's sex hormones surging in a quite different way to an action adventure movie, according to a study that suggests a person's video or DVD collection is a window on their soul."
Are action movies bad for weak hearts?
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"Watching action movies could be dangerous for people with heart conditions, according to new research."
Violent movies can increase violent responses in real life
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"Two recently published studies show that prolonged exposure to gratuitous violence in the media can escalate subsequent hostile behaviors and, among some viewers, foster greater acceptance of violence as a means of conflict resolution."
Longest-Running Popular Movie Franchises
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