Submission + - Read better books to be a better person (wordpress.com) 1
00_NOP writes: Researchers from the New School for Social Research in New York have demonstrated that if you read quality literary fiction you become a better person, in the sense that you are more likely to emphasise with others. Presumably we can all think of books that have changed the way we feel about the world — so this is, in a sense, a scientific confirmation of something fairly intuitive.
SPELLING! (Score:2)
Empathise is the word you want, not emphasise; that changes the meaning very significantly.