诺丁汉大学哲学教授格雷戈里·柯里最近在《纽约时报》撰文指出,我们不应断言文学可提升我们做人的素质,因为没有“令人信服的证据表明人们阅读托尔斯泰的作品”或其他巨著后“道德境界或为人之道有所提高”其实,有这样的证据。加拿大约克大学心理学家雷蒙德·马尔和多伦多大学认知心理学荣休教授基思·奥特利在2006年和2009年发表的研究报告中称,常读 Gregory Currie, a professor of philosophy at Nottingham University, recently wrote in The New York Times that we should not assert that literature enhances the quality of our life because there is no convincing evidence that people read Tolstoy’s work, “Or other monograph after ” moral realm or humanity has improved "In fact, there is such evidence. Raymond Marl, a psychologist at York University in Canada, and Keith Otley, a retired professor of cognitive psychology at the University of Toronto, said in a study published in 2006 and in 2009 that regular reading