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Spoilers don't ruin books. A study of 12 stories proved the opposite. 🔍

Researchers gave readers either the original story or a version that revealed the ending first. Across three experiments, readers preferred the SPOILED versions almost every time.

Knowing the ending frees you to savor HOW it happens the craft, the tension instead of racing for "what happens." Suspense was never the main source of the pleasure.

So the last-page-peekers among us? Vindicated by science.

Spoiler-hater or last-page-peeker? Be honest 👇

Part 13 of Your Brain on Books.
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Source: Leavitt & Christenfeld (2011), Psychological Science.
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