Alex Greig — Readers of literary fiction are more creative and exercise better judgment, claim scientists

• Research from the University of Toronto found that people who had just read a short story were able to think less rigidly and were more comfortable with disorder and uncertainty
• People who are regular readers also appeared to be more creative thinkers and less prone to snap judgements
• The study suggested reading literary fiction is a way to become more open-minded

Daily Mail (UK)
Readers of literary fiction are more creative and exercise better judgment, claim scientists
Alex Greig
(h/t Lambert Strether at Naked Capitalism)

In addition to getting out more, conventional economists should read more literary fiction (as opposed to pulp fiction)? Could help them with their addiction to deductive certainty arising from too much modeling.