Psychs find surprising thing happens to kids reading Harry Potter

[Perspicuo]

Psychologists Find a Surprising Thing Happens to Kids Who Read Harry Potter
http://mic.com/articles/95236/psych...g-thing-happens-to-kids-who-read-harry-potter

Harry Potter's greatest feat might not have been defeating Voldemort, but teaching young people around the world to battle prejudice. At least that's the finding of a new paper in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, which claims reading the Harry Potter series significantly improved young peoples' perception of stigmatized groups like immigrants, homosexuals or refugees.

Wiley Online Library: The greatest magic of Harry Potter: Reducing prejudice
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jasp.12279/abstract

Abstract
Recent research shows that extended contact via story reading is [...]

 

[Bomb#20]

Psychologists Find a Surprising Thing Happens to Kids Who Read Harry Potter
http://mic.com/articles/95236/psych...g-thing-happens-to-kids-who-read-harry-potter

Wiley Online Library: The greatest magic of Harry Potter: Reducing prejudice
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jasp.12279/abstract

Abstract
Recent research shows that extended contact via story reading is [...]

Hey! Who's that guy on the left? What's he doing in there? Send him back wherever he came from!

 

[Eldarion Lathria]

You mean they're NOT lusting after Hermione?

Eldarion Lathria

 

[Perspicuo]

Yeah, she's a mudblood, so there's your daily dose of tolerance education.

 

[doubtingt]

To summarize, the effects seem to to require that the books be read within the formal context of a literature class in which the students are led by the teacher in an explicit exploration of the themes of prejudice in the book, and even then the effects only emerge for readers who strongly identify with Potter's character.

 

[Underseer]

And now we know why conservative Christians hate Harry Potter so much! He's part of the Politically Correct conspiracy to persecute rich white heterosexual males!