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Does a single session of reading literary fiction prime enhanced mentalising performance? Four replication experiments of Kidd and Castano (2013)

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Pages 130-144 | Received 29 Jul 2015, Accepted 28 Dec 2016, Published online: 17 Jan 2017

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