A feeling for fiction: becoming what we behold

By David S. Miall, Don Kuiken. 2002

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Effects of Literature on Empathy and Self-Reflection: A Theoretical-Empirical Framework (2015, unknown): “An attempt to create a theory of affective response particular to literary texts has been made by Miall and Kuiken (1994; 1999; 2002), who follow Van Peer (1986a) in his focus on »foregrounding« and »defamiliarization«.”
Effects of "literariness" on emotions and on empathy and reflection after reading (2016, background): “In the conceptualization of Miall and Kuiken (2002), narrative feelings are those affective states directed toward characters and events (i.e., to the story world), and include identification, empathy and sympathy with characters as well as general absorption into the narrative world (feeling like…”
On Being Moved by Art: How Reading Fiction Transforms the Self (2009, background): “Reading fictional narratives has been found to involve processes of identification and self-implication (Kuiken, Miall, & Sikora, 2004) and to modify the self (Miall & Kuiken, 2002 ).”
Transportation Into Narrative Worlds: The Role of Prior Knowledge and Perceived Realism (2004, background): “However, literature may be more likely to lead to transformations of the self (Miall & Kuiken, 2002; Oatley, 2002), in addition to changes in story-related beliefs (cf. Ottati, Rhoads, & Graesser, 1999), particularly when individuals are transported (see Kuiken et al., this issue).”
Empathic reactions after reading: The role of genre, personal factors and affective responses (2015, background): “This second type of empathic response can be called ‘‘narrative empathy’’ (after Keen, 2007), and is part of the broader concept ‘‘narrative feelings’’ (see Kneepkens and Zwaan, 1994; Miall and Kuiken, 2002), which consists of all feelings toward the narrative world, including empathy and sympathy w”
Forms of Self-Implication in Literary Reading (2004, background): “Elsewhere we have presented preliminary evidence that aesthetic feelings initiate the reinterpretive effort withinwhich self-modifying feelings emerge (Miall and Kuiken 1995, 2002).”
Media and Emotions (2005, background): “Other researchers have also identified such emotions: Tan (1996) calls them “fiction emotions,” Miall and Kuiken (2002), “narrative emotions.””