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 ...

Trying to learn sometimes impairs implicit learning of artificial grammars and of control systems. We asked whether such negative effects of trying also occur in implicit learning of subtle sequential regularities and whether such effects vary with adult age. Young (n = 12, age = 20-23) and older (n = 24, age = 60-80) adults completed an alternating serial response time task in which predictabl...