From: U.S. News & World Report (Healthday)

Read a Book, Stay Connected

U.S. News & World Report (Healthday):

Reading a book can satisfy the crucial human need for belonging, a new study has found.

The research involved 140 university students who were given 30 minutes to read a selected passage from either the vampire novel Twilight or the wizard novel Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. The passages focused on the lives of either vampires or wizards.

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