How the Type and Context of Children's Storybook Reading Relate to Select Empathy Skills
A Meta-Analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14983263 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marta Ciesielska (University of Sheffield), Natalia Kucirkova (University of Stavanger), Jenny Thomson (University of Sheffield) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1888-1914 |
| Publication date | 2025-11-17 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Early Education and Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1040-9289 • E-ISSN: 1556-6935 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10409289.2025.2516989 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 92 |
Empathy and Moral Development
Empathy and the Novel
Can social interaction constitute social cognition?
Reading Literary Fiction Improves Theory of Mind
The Relation between Children's and Mothers’ Mental State Language and Theory-of-Mind Understanding
The Neural Bases of Social Cognition and Story Comprehension
Empathy
Child Development and Emergent Literacy
The PRISMA 2020 statement
Fiction reading has a small positive impact on social cognition
Benefits and Pitfalls of Multimedia and Interactive Features in Technology-Enhanced Storybooks
Fiction
Emotion Knowledge as a Predictor of Social Behavior and Academic Competence in Children at Risk
The Function of Fiction is the Abstraction and Simulation of Social Experience
Social intelligence − empathy = aggression?
The impact of shared book reading on children's language skills
Building long-term empathy
The role of bilingual discussion prompts in shared E-book reading
Mothers' discourse during shared reading of books relating to ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ emotions in different genres
A Comparison of Children’s Reading on Paper Versus Screen
Effects of Family Literacy Programs on the Emergent Literacy Skills of Children From Low-SES Families
Parochial Empathy Predicts Reduced Altruism and the Endorsement of Passive Harm
Responding to the emotions of others
Parent–child picture-book reading, mothers' mental state language and children's theory of mind
Mothers’ complex talk when sharing books with their toddlers
Us and Them
Handling Complex Meta-analytic Data Structures Using Robust Variance Estimates
Differentiated associations between childhood maltreatment experiences and social understanding
Empathy and perspective-taking
Long-term effects of a mediated reading programme on the development of emotional competencies / Efectos a largo plazo de un programa de lectura mediada para el desarrollo de competencias emocionales
Children's literature and activities promoting social cognition of peer relationships in preschoolers
Weight of Evidence
Bookworms versus nerds
Children's Emergent Reading of Favorite Storybooks
Does reading a single passage of literary fiction really improve theory of mind? An attempt at replication
Measuring individual differences in empathy
Moral Emotions and Moral Behavior
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |