Empathic Engagement with Narrative Fictions

By Amy Coplan. 2004

229 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. E. Koopman
2. Thalia Goldstein
3. H. Maibom
4. O. Bennett
5. Eleonora Belfiore
6. Raymond A. Mar

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. E. Koopman
2. Thalia Goldstein
3. H. Maibom
4. O. Bennett
5. Eleonora Belfiore
6. Raymond A. Mar

In Social Psychology

1. E. Koopman
2. Thalia Goldstein
3. H. Maibom
4. O. Bennett
5. Eleonora Belfiore
6. Raymond A. Mar

Citations in the corpus

• The many faces of emotional contagion (2014, unknown): “Coplan (2004) argued that empathetic partners incorporate the other person into themselves, while simultaneously maintaining an awareness that the other party’s situation is not truly their own.”
• Effects of "literariness" on emotions and on empathy and reflection after reading (2016, background): “…towards characters were divided in one construct measuring sympathy/empathy: feeling for (sympathy) and feeling with (empathy) characters (cf. Coplan, 2004), and one construct measuring identification: seeing oneself as similar to a character, taking on their goals and perspective (cf. Mar,…”
• Effects of Literature on Empathy and Self-Reflection: A Theoretical-Empirical Framework (2015, unknown): “The involvement with characters and events has been given various names in the literature, including »narrative engagement«, »absorption«, »transportation« and »narrative emotions« (e. g., Busselle/Bilandzic 2009; Green/ Brock 2000; Kneepkens/Zwaan 1994; Koopman 2011).”
• Determinants of Impact: Towards a Better Understanding of Encounters with the Arts (2007, background): “…experimental approach to understanding the encounter with the artwork seems less developed.21 Research into reading, however, has been increasing since the mid-twentieth century.22 Research has been carried out especially into text processing and reading or narrative comprehension (Coplan, 2004).”
• Empathic reactions after reading: The role of genre, personal factors and affective responses (2015, unknown): “…the two, with ‘‘empathy’’ designating the experience of feeling someone else’s feelings (‘‘feeling with’’), and ‘‘sympathy’’ designating the feeling of concern for another, without feeling what the other feels (‘‘feeling for’’) (e.g., Busselle and Bilandzic, 2009; Coplan, 2004; Mar et al., 2011).”
• The pleasure of unadulterated sadness: Experiencing sorrow in fiction, nonfiction, and "in person." (2009, background): “Perhaps this is because, as suggested by Coplan (2006), in our own lives we know the event will not go away, and we will have to keep dealing with the long term effect.”
• The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Empathy (2017, background): “A might be acquainted with the feel of ψ , either by currently being in ψ , or by currently remembering a previous occasion where A was in ψ .”