Learning Implicit Biases from Fiction

Abstract Philosophers and psychologists have argued that fiction can ethically educate us: supposedly make us better people. This view has been contested. It is, however, rarely morally “corrupt” us. In this article, we focus on the alleged power of to decrease one's prejudices biases. We argue if change biases for better, then it also opposite effect. further fictions are more likely be a bad influence than good one.