If you ever feel vaguely guilty about the vast amounts of television you watch, might I suggest you cling to the findings of this study, published last week in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. In it, the authors claim that watching high-quality television dramas —things like Mad Men or The West Wing —can increase your emotional intelligence. That is, watching good TV makes you more empathetic.

如果你曾因看过巨多电视剧而有那么些许的愧疚，那我就要建议你去参考下这项研究的结果了。该研究上周在《心理学美学》、《创造》和《艺术》等杂志期刊上发表过。研究中，作者称看一些像《广告狂人》和《白宫风云》等电视剧能够提高人的情绪感知力。即，看一些优质电视剧能够让你对事物更加地感同身受。

In the paper, the authors describe two experiments. In one, they asked about 100 people to first watch either a television drama (Mad Men or The West Wing) or a nonfiction program (How the Universe Works or Shark Week: Jaws Strikes Back). Afterward, all of the participants took a test psychologists often use to measure emotional intelligence: They're shown 36 pairs of eyes and are told to judge the emotion each pair is displaying. The results showed that the people who'd watched the fictionalized shows did better on this test than those who watched the nonfiction ones.

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