effects of literariness on reading

The relatively-new, online, open-access (with access potentially to even the reviews, an option authors may select at the time of submission) journal Collabra published in December a fascinating paper by van den Hoven et al. reporting the effects of literariness on...

(some) spoilers spoil stories

In 2011, Leavitt and Christenfeld reported (PDF link to original paper) – to much, much, much media attention – that presenting a spoiler before a short story increased enjoyment of that short story, counter to the intuitions of many. Although this...