When was the last time you sat down with a good book? Over the last couple of decades, the number of Americans reading for pleasure has been steadily dropping, with one large study finding that only 16% of people read for pleasure. Trends elsewhere are similarly in decline; in the U.K., the percentage of people who read regularly dropped 8% over the last decade or so.
This might seem like an unimportant, if slightly depressing, side effect of people’s attention being fixed on screens. But a new review published in Psychological Medicine suggests that reading for pleasure—sitting down and focusing on a book you actually look forward to…
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