The authors describe a constructionist theory that accounts for the knowledge-based
inferences that are constructed when readers comprehend narrative text. Readers …

This paper reviews theoretical and empirical research on situational interest. A distinction is
made between situational and personal interest. The former is spontaneous and context …

What does it mean to be transported by a narrative? to create a world inside one's head?
How do experiences of narrative worlds alter our experience of the real world? In this book …

Does empathy felt while reading fiction actually cultivate a sense of connection, leading to
altruistic actions on behalf of real others? Empathy and the Novel presents a comprehensive …

Deeper than Reason takes the insights of modern psychological and neuroscientific
research on the emotions and brings them to bear on questions about our emotional …

Written in a friendly, conversational style, this book offers a hands-on approach to statistical
mediation and moderation for both beginning researchers and those familiar with modeling …

" Transportation into a narrative world"(Green & Brock, 2000, 2002) has been identified as a
mechanism of narrative impact. A transported individual is cognitively and emotionally …

Psychologists have always been interested in interest, and so modern research on interest
can be found in nearly every area of the field: Researchers studying emotions, cognition …

We are living in a time when the activation of mirror neurons in the brains of onlookers can
be recorded as they witness another's actions and emotional reac tions. 1 Contemporary …

Introduced one hundred years ago, film has since become part of our lives. For the past
century, however, the experience offered by fiction films has remained a mystery. Questions …