Reading Makes You Violent

“’Reading aggression in literature can influence subsequent aggressive behavior, which tends to be specific to the type of aggression contained in the story,’ a Brigham Young University research team led by Sarah M. Coyne writes in the British Journal of Social Psychology. The study does not show that reading a fictional account of an aggressive action increases belligerent behavior, but it suggests exposure to such literature has a psychological impact on readers, affecting the way they respond to provocations.”
 — This totally explains why all the millennials who grew up on Harry Potter are always trying to cast spells at you when you piss them off. [Via]