What You Read Matters: The Role of Fiction Genre in Predicting Interpersonal Sensitivity

By Katrina Fong, J. Mullin, Raymond A. Mar. 2013

127 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science

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In Literature and Literary Theory

1. Jessica E. Black
2. Emanuele Castano
3. J. Barnes
4. D. Kidd
5. Raymond A. Mar

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Jessica E. Black
2. Emanuele Castano
3. J. Barnes
4. D. Kidd
5. Raymond A. Mar
6. Mark Dechesne

Citations in the corpus

• The effects of reading material on social and non-social cognition (2015, methodology): “, 2001) has been used frequently as a measure of ToM in fiction research (e.g., Djikic et al., 2013; Fong et al., 2013; Kidd & Castano, 2013; Mar et al., 2006; Mar, Oatley, et al., 2009; Mar, Tackett, et al., 2009).”
• Different stories: How levels of familiarity with literary and genre fiction relate to mentalizing. (2017, methodology): “This may appear inconsistent with prior findings of a positive relation between familiarity with romance fiction (but not science fiction/fantasy or suspense/thriller) and RMET performance (Fong et al., 2013).”