Existential reflection and morality

This paper presents a series of three studies describing how reading literature promotes empathy and moral outcomes. We add contrasts to this field empirical study: (a) an explanatory interpretative form narrative engagement (Integrative Comprehension) is contrasted with expressive explicative aesthetic (Expressive Enactment); (b) interpretive cognitive perspective-taking (a component Integrative distinguished from Expressive (c) local outcome (involving changes in attitude toward specific group or outgroup) global inclusive respect for human subjectivity). These are clarified contextualized within existential-phenomenological discussions sense-giving lived experience, agency, morality. In conclusion, we offer framework that specifies the potential impact on wellbeing literary involves existential reflection, especially as conceived emerging positive psychology.