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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1998 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Richard J. Gerrig is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Arts and Humanities as well as Psychology, with a focus on literature, cognitive processes, and social aspects of media consumption. The subfields contributing to their work include Literature and Literary Theory, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Education, Social Psychology, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

Gerrig's recent academic contributions include publications in various peer-reviewed venues. Notable recent papers are:

  • "Processes and products of readers' journeys to narrative worlds," 2023, Discourse Processes
  • "Examining Readers' Emotional Responses to Stories," 2022, Journal of Media Psychology Theories Methods and Applications
  • "The Representation of Emotion Inferences," 2021, Discourse Processes
  • "Titelseiten," 2022, Journal of Literary Theory
  • "Titelseiten," 2020, Journal of Literary Theory

Frequent coauthors in Gerrig's publications include Zared Shawver, Jan Borkowski, Els Andringa, Karin Bauer, and Vladimir Biti. These collaborations suggest a multi-authored approach to their research topics.

Gerrig has contributed to a range of publication venues, primarily:

  • Discourse Processes
  • Journal of Literary Theory
  • Journal of Media Psychology Theories Methods and Applications
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Metaphor and Symbol

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Media Influence and Health
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Literacy, Media, and Education
  • Media, Gender, and Advertising
  • Humor Studies and Applications

Recognition of Gerrig's contributions includes fellowships in major professional societies. They were named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1998 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Quotations as Demonstrations

    Herbert H. Clark;Richard J. Gerrig

  • Experiencing Narrative Worlds

    Richard J. Gerrig

  • On the pretense theory of irony

    Herbert H. Clark;Richard J. Gerrig

  • Moral heuristics. Commentaries. Author's reply

    Cass R. Sunstein;Matthew D. Adler;Christopher J. Anderson;Elizabeth Anderson

  • The impact of memory demands on audience design during language production.

    William S. Horton;Richard J. Gerrig

  • What readers bring to the processing of fictional texts

    Deborah A. Prentice;Richard J. Gerrig;Daniel S. Bailis

  • The Representation of Fictional Information

    Richard J. Gerrig;Deborah A. Prentice

  • Conversational Common Ground and Memory Processes in Language Production

    William S. Horton;William S. Horton;Richard J. Gerrig

  • How Context Makes Metaphor Comprehension Seem 'Special'

    Raymond W. Gibbs;Richard J. Gerrig

  • Exploring the boundary between fiction and reality.

    Deborah A. Prentice;Richard J. Gerrig

  • Leisure reading and social cognition: A meta-analysis.

    Micah L. Mumper;Richard J. Gerrig

  • The readiness is all: The functionality of memory‐based text processing

    Richard J. Gerrig;Gail McKoon

  • Understanding old words with new meanings

    Herbert H. Clark;Richard J. Gerrig

  • Speakers’ experiences and audience design: knowing when and knowing how to adjust utterances to addressees☆

    William S. Horton;Richard J. Gerrig

  • Unheralded Pronouns and Management by Common Ground

    S.B. Greene;R.J. Gerrig;G. Mckoon;R. Ratcliff

  • Pronoun resolution without pronouns: some consequences of memory-based text processing.

    Gail McKoon;Richard J. Gerrig;Steven B. Greene

  • Readers' Trait-Based Models of Characters in Narrative Comprehension☆

    David N. Rapp;Richard J. Gerrig;Deborah A. Prentice

  • The Scope of Memory-Based Processing

    Richard J. Gerrig;Edward J. O’Brien

  • Psychological processes underlying literary impact

    Richard J. Gerrig;David N. Rapp

  • How should implicit memory phenomena be modeled

    David W. Allbritton;Gail McKoon;Richard J. Gerrig

  • Models of understanding text

    Richard J. Gerrig

Frequent Co-Authors

Gail McKoon
Gail McKoon The Ohio State University
David N. Rapp
David N. Rapp Northwestern University
Deborah A. Prentice
Deborah A. Prentice Princeton University
Mahzarin R. Banaji
Mahzarin R. Banaji Harvard University
Edward J. O'Brien
Edward J. O'Brien University of New Hampshire
Raymond W. Gibbs
Raymond W. Gibbs University of California, Santa Cruz
Elke U. Weber
Elke U. Weber Princeton University
Natalio Extremera
Natalio Extremera University of Malaga
Dedre Gentner
Dedre Gentner Northwestern University
Harold A. Herzog
Harold A. Herzog Western Carolina University

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