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Elaine Reese, in her book How Stories Change Us, writes about myriad benefits of reading books both for children and adults.

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Knowing about a person’s personality traits may allow a psychologically well-informed card selection this Christmas.

Affect is a positive-to-negative feeling in consciousness, and there is fierce debate about exactly what it is. This post summarizes the current state of the debate.