The pleasure of unadulterated sadness: Experiencing sorrow in fiction, nonfiction, and "in person."

By Thalia Goldstein. 2009

96 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Health Information Management, Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/5838e28860c12e731507431e93409571f436e501

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In Health Information Management

1. Ellen Winner
2. Jennifer E. Drake
3. Thalia Goldstein

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. Ellen Winner
2. Jennifer E. Drake
3. Thalia Goldstein

In Social Psychology

1. Ellen Winner
2. Jennifer E. Drake
3. Thalia Goldstein

Citations in the corpus

• Enhancing Empathy and Theory of Mind (2012, background): “These clips had previously been rated by adults as very sad (Goldstein, 2009), and all participants correctly identified the protagonists as sad.”
• Confronting Sadness Through Art-Making: Distraction Is More Beneficial Than Venting (2012, background): “This clip has been shown to be effective in inducing a negative mood (Goldstein, 2009).”
• Effects of Literature on Empathy and Self-Reflection: A Theoretical-Empirical Framework (2015, unknown): “When reading a story, Oatley (ibid.) argues, we make mental models of the narrative world, take on the goals and plans of the protagonist, and subsequently experience emotions according to our evaluation to what extent these goals are accomplished (cf. Hakemulder 2000).”