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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2001 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

Keith Oatley is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and works primarily in the fields of Psychology, Arts and Humanities, and Social Sciences. Their research spans several subfields, including Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, Literature and Literary Theory, and Social Psychology.

Oatley's work covers a range of topics, most notably:

  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Media Influence and Health
  • Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
  • Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Digital Games and Media
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception

Among recent papers associated with Oatley's research interests are:

  • How poetry evokes emotions, 2022, Acta Psychologica
  • Social Functions of Emotions in Life and Imaginative Culture, 2022, Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture
  • Emotions, Simulation, and Abstract Art, 2021, Art & Perception
  • Discrete emotions discovered by contactless measurement of facial blood flows, 2022, Cognition & Emotion
  • Secular pilgrimage to places associated with writers, musicians, and visual artists, 2021, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change

Frequent co-authors include Sandra W. Russ, P. N. Johnson-Laird, Dacher Keltner, Hansika Kapoor, and Oshin Vartanian.

Oatley has published books with Cambridge University Press, including "The Cambridge Handbook of Lifespan Development of Creativity" (2021), which has been cited in academic contexts.

Their frequent publication venues similarly reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their work, with multiple papers appearing in Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Acta Psychologica, Cognition & Emotion, and Art & Perception.

Keith Oatley was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2001 within the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Towards a Cognitive Theory of Emotions

    Keith Oatley;P. N. Johnson-laird

  • The Function of Fiction is the Abstraction and Simulation of Social Experience

    Raymond A. Mar;Keith Oatley

  • Best laid schemes : the psychology of emotions

    Keith Oatley

  • The language of emotions: An analysis of a semantic field

    P. N. Johnson-laird;Keith Oatley

  • A taxonomy of the emotions of literary response and a theory of identification in fictional narrative

    Keith Oatley

  • Why fiction may be twice as true as fact: Fiction as cognitive and emotional simulation.

    Keith Oatley

  • Exploring the link between reading fiction and empathy: Ruling out individual differences and examining outcomes

    Raymond A. Mar;Keith Oatley;Jordan B. Peterson

  • Basic emotions, rationality, and folk theory

    P. N. Johnson-laird;Keith Oatley

  • Bookworms versus nerds: Exposure to fiction versus non-fiction, divergent associations with social ability, and the simulation of fictional social worlds

    Raymond A. Mar;Keith Oatley;Jacob Hirsh;Jennifer dela Paz

  • Fiction: Simulation of Social Worlds.

    Keith Oatley

  • Meetings of minds: Dialogue, sympathy, and identification, in reading fiction

    Keith Oatley

  • Emotion and narrative fiction: Interactive influences before, during, and after reading

    Raymond A. Mar;Keith Oatley;Maja Djikic;Justin Mullin

  • Human Emotions: Function and Dysfunction

    Keith Oatley;Jennifer M. Jenkins

  • Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction

    Keith Oatley

  • On Being Moved by Art: How Reading Fiction Transforms the Self

    Maja Djikic;Keith Oatley;Sara Zoeterman;Jordan B. Peterson

  • Emotions and the Story Worlds of Fiction

    K. Oatley

  • Emotions: A Brief History

    Keith Oatley

  • The communicative theory of emotions: Empirical tests, mental models, and implications for social interaction.

    Keith Oatley;Philip N. Johnson-Laird

  • Reading other minds: Effects of literature on empathy

    Maja Djikic;Keith Oatley;Mihnea C. Moldoveanu

  • A social-cognitive theory of depression in reaction to life events.

    Keith Oatley;Winifred Bolton

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip N. Johnson-Laird
Philip N. Johnson-Laird Princeton University
Jennifer Jenkins
Jennifer Jenkins University of Toronto
Raymond A. Mar
Raymond A. Mar York University
Jordan B. Peterson
Jordan B. Peterson University of Toronto
W. Gerrod Parrott
W. Gerrod Parrott Georgetown University
Dacher Keltner
Dacher Keltner University of California, Berkeley
David R. Olson
David R. Olson University of Toronto
Ross Buck
Ross Buck University of Connecticut
Jacob B. Hirsh
Jacob B. Hirsh University of Toronto

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