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Raymond A. Mar

Raymond A. Mar

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Psychology

D-Index
35
Citations
13992
World Ranking
9662
National Ranking
671

Overview

Raymond A. Mar is affiliated with York University in Canada and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology. Their work spans several subfields, including Sociology and Political Science, Literature and Literary Theory, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

Their research topics focus mainly on Media Influence and Health, Misinformation and Its Impacts, Media, Gender, and Advertising, the Impact of Technology on Adolescents, Child Development and Digital Technology, Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior, and Child and Animal Learning Development.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Raymond A. Mar are:

  • Memory and comprehension of narrative versus expository texts: A meta-analysis (2021, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review)
  • Adult attachment and engagement with fictional characters (2021, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships)
  • What's your pleasure? exploring the predictors of leisure reading for fiction and nonfiction (2021, Reading and Writing)
  • Adolescent leisure reading and its longitudinal association with prosocial behavior and social adjustment (2023, Scientific Reports)
  • Does a brief exposure to literary fiction improve social ability? Assessing the evidential value of published studies with a p-curve (2022, Journal of Experimental Psychology General)

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Joshua A. Quinlan
  • Ronda F. Lo
  • Anh Truong Phuong Nguyen
  • Tobias Richter
  • Chantelle Ivanski

Raymond A. Mar has frequently published in venues such as Psychology of Popular Media, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Applied Cognitive Psychology, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, and the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.

Best Publications

  • The common neural basis of autobiographical memory, prospection, navigation, theory of mind, and the default mode: A quantitative meta-analysis

    R. Nathan Spreng;Raymond A. Mar;Alice S. N. Kim

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

    Raymond A. Mar;Keith Oatley

  • The Toronto Empathy Questionnaire: Scale development and initial validation of a factor-analytic solution to multiple empathy measures

    R. Nathan Spreng;Margaret C. McKinnon;Raymond A. Mar;Brian Levine

  • The Neural Bases of Social Cognition and Story Comprehension

    Raymond A. Mar

  • Psychological entropy: a framework for understanding uncertainty-related anxiety.

    Jacob B. Hirsh;Raymond A. Mar;Jordan B. Peterson

  • The neuropsychology of narrative: story comprehension, story production and their interrelation.

    Raymond A Mar

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

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

  • 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

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

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

  • Imagine All the People: How the Brain Creates and Uses Personality Models to Predict Behavior

    Demis Hassabis;R. Nathan Spreng;Andrei A. Rusu;Clifford A. Robbins

  • Lay denial of knowledge for justified true beliefs.

    Jennifer Nagel;Valerie San Juan;Raymond A. Mar

  • Exposure to media and theory-of-mind development in preschoolers

    Raymond A. Mar;Jennifer L. Tackett;Chris Moore

  • The Hierarchical Structure of Childhood Personality in Five Countries: Continuity From Early Childhood to Early Adolescence

    Jennifer L. Tackett;Helena R. Slobodskaya;Raymond A. Mar;James Deal

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

    Katrina Fong;Justin B. Mullin;Raymond A. Mar

  • Common and unique neural correlates of autobiographical memory and theory of mind

    Jennifer S. Rabin;Asaf Gilboa;Donald T. Stuss;Raymond A. Mar

  • I remember you: A role for memory in social cognition and the functional neuroanatomy of their interaction

    R. Nathan Spreng;Raymond A. Mar

  • How daydreaming relates to life satisfaction, loneliness, and social support: the importance of gender and daydream content.

    Raymond A. Mar;Malia F. Mason;Aubrey Litvack

  • Memory and comprehension of narrative versus expository texts: A meta-analysis.

    Raymond A. Mar;Jingyuan Li;Anh T. P. Nguyen;Cindy P. Ta

  • Detecting agency from the biological motion of veridical vs animated agents

    Raymond A. Mar;William M. Kelley;Todd F. Heatherton;C. Neil Macrae

  • What Does My Avatar Say About Me? Inferring Personality From Avatars

    Katrina Fong;Raymond A. Mar

  • Effects of reading on knowledge, social abilities, and selfhood: Theory and empirical studies

    Raymond Mar;Maja Djikic;Keith Oatley

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith Oatley
Keith Oatley University of Toronto
Jordan B. Peterson
Jordan B. Peterson University of Toronto
R. Nathan Spreng
R. Nathan Spreng McGill University
Jacob B. Hirsh
Jacob B. Hirsh University of Toronto
Jennifer L. Tackett
Jennifer L. Tackett Northwestern University
R. Shayna Rosenbaum
R. Shayna Rosenbaum York University
C. Neil Macrae
C. Neil Macrae University of Aberdeen
Donald T. Stuss
Donald T. Stuss University of Toronto
Colin G. DeYoung
Colin G. DeYoung University of Minnesota
Asaf Gilboa
Asaf Gilboa University of Toronto

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