What's largely considered a solitary activity can improve communication skills and strengthen empathy and compassion, say ...

A study published in the journal Psychological Medicine in June 2023 examined the possible benefits of reading for pleasure. This topic of research is very important since reading for pleasure seems ...

Put down the book, pick up the phone. So it goes in the United States, where daily reading for pleasure has plummeted more than 40% among adults over the last two decades, according to a new study ...

Another study that takes a stab at trying to determine how much, or how little, Americans read has been released. The new report looked how reading for pleasure and reading with children fared between ...

One day, while scrolling through social media, I found an intriguing article from The Atlantic. The article, titled “The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read,” explores the phenomenon of university ...

A recent study has found a sharp decline in the number of Americans who choose to read for fun. The national report published last month in the journal iScience found that people reading for pleasure ...

According to Publishers Weekly, the National Endowment for the Arts or NEA came up with a new report where they mentioned that the reading rates among adults have reduced rigorously in the last five ...

Fewer Americans than ever before are reading for pleasure, according to a new study released Wednesday, declining 40 percent in the past 20 years. Only 16 percent of Americans age 15 and over read for ...

Researchers fear the reading decline reflects how many Americans have less and less leisure time. “Reading for pleasure, among other forms of arts participation, is a health behavior,” said one author ...