Empathy and the Novel

By Suzanne Keen. 2007

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The Common Neural Basis of Autobiographical Memory, Prospection, Navigation, Theory of Mind, and the Default Mode: A Quantitative Meta-analysis (2009, unknown): “social cognition and narrative processing (e.g., Mar & Oatley, in press; Keen, 2007; Mar, Oatley, Hirsh, dela Paz, & Peterson, 2006; Zunshine, 2006; Palmer, 2004; Peskin & Astington, 2004; Oatley, 1999; Bruner, 1986).”
Effects of Literature on Empathy and Self-Reflection: A Theoretical-Empirical Framework (2015, unknown): “This type of empathy can be called »narrative empathy« (after Keen 2007), and it is linked to the broader concept »narrative emotions« (see Kneepkens/Zwaan 1994; Miall/Kuiken 2002; Tan 1996), which consists of all emotions toward the narrative world, including empathy with characters.”
The neural bases of social cognition and story comprehension. (2011, background): “A number of theorists and researchers have postulated that readers employ ToM in the understanding of stories (Bruner 1986, Keen 2007, Mar & Oatley 2008, Zunshine 2006), and this is certainly the assumption of story-based studies of ToM.”
Transportation into a story increases empathy, prosocial behavior, and perceptual bias toward fearful expressions (2012, background): “Yet, these theoretical assumptions have recently been questioned and have only rarely undergone empirical scrutiny (Keen, 2007).”
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…”
Contributions of Academic Language, Perspective Taking, and Complex Reasoning to Deep Reading Comprehension (2016, background): “The relevant empirical literature, on the other hand, is scattered, in part because the construct of perspective taking has been variously operationalized as theory of mind (Pelletier, 2006), narrative empathy (Keen, 2007), social cognition (Shantz, 1982), or social information processing (Donahue, ”