{"id":5236,"date":"2015-02-07T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T06:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5236"},"modified":"2016-08-26T18:54:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T23:54:00","slug":"literatures-power-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5236","title":{"rendered":"LITERATURE&#8217;S POWER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cI think the best psychologists are actually fiction writers,\u201d Konnikova said. \u201cTheir understanding of the human mind is so far beyond where we&#8217;ve been able to get with psychology as a science.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The narrow focus required by scientific research can miss the big picture, Konnikova said; researchers often tinker around the edges of wisdom elucidated by novelists a hundred years ago. \u201cYou need the careful experimentation, but you also need to take a step back and realize that fiction writers are seeing a broader vista and are capable of providing you with insights or even ideas for studies.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The rest is here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/?articles.view\/articleNo\/33945\/title\/It-s-Elementary\/\">http:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/?articles.view\/articleNo\/33945\/title\/It-s-Elementary\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think the best psychologists are actually fiction writers,\u201d Konnikova said. \u201cTheir understanding of the human mind is so far beyond where we&#8217;ve been able to get with psychology as a science.\u201d The narrow focus required by scientific research can miss the big picture, Konnikova said; researchers often tinker around the edges of wisdom elucidated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,115,33,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-psychology","category-quotable","category-wisdom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5238,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236\/revisions\/5238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}