Although personal relevance is key to sustaining an audience's interest in any given
narrative, it has received little systematic attention in scholarship to date. Across centuries …

Few studies have investigated the link between episodic memory and presence: the feeling
of “being there” and reacting to a stimulus as if it were real. We collected data from 244 …

Major depressive disorder is a leading global cause of disability. There is a growing interest
for memory in mood disorders since it might constitute an original tool for prevention …

Several theoretical models stress the role of executive functions in emotion regulation (ER).
However, most of the previous studies on ER employed explicit regulatory strategies that …

The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) has been consistently implicated in autobiographical
memory recall and decision making. Its function in decision making tasks is believed to …

Engaging with the wide sociological literature on emotions, this book explores the social
representation of emotions, their management and their effects by making reference to …

Presence, flow, narrative absorption, immersion, transportation, and similar subjective
phenomena are studied in many different disciplines, mostly in relation to mediated …

Experiments have shown that compared to fictional texts, readers read factual texts faster
and have better memory for described situations. Reading fictional texts on the other hand …

In this paper, I review developments in discussions of fiction and emotion over the last
decade concerning both the descriptive question of how to classify fiction-directed emotions …

As state-of-art technology can create artificial images that are indistinguishable from real
ones, it is urgent to understand whether believing that a picture is real or not has some …