
It boosts your emotional intelligence People who read literary fiction show higher levels of empathy and emotional intelligence, according to studies published in the Public Library of Science, the Journal of Research in Personality and The European Journal of Communication Research.Īnd emotional intelligence plays an important role in the workplace. Research published in the Journal of American Academy of Neurology finds that people who engage in mentally stimulating activities like reading experience slower memory decline than those who do not. The benefits of reading can help you stay sharp too. He adds that the data supports this finding "time and again." In separate research, brain scans of college students after reading a thriller showed increased activity in the areas of the brain related to language comprehension and sensation.

National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health. then reading may well make people smarter," psychologist Keith Stanovich writes in the U.S.

"If 'smarter' means having a larger vocabulary and more world knowledge.
