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

Oatley, Keith·1999·Poetics
DOI 10.1016/s0304-422x(99)00011-x
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  • High engagement in fictional stories, rather than literary quality, is important to foster readers' empathy.

    “Collectively, this research suggests that high engagement in fi ctional stories, rather than literary quality, is important to foster readers ' empathy (Gibson, 2007; Mar et al., 2006; Oatley, 1999).”

    From Reading and Empathy: Qualitative insights into adolescents' experiences with fiction books (2025) · cites this paper as Oatley, 1999

  • Emotional engagement enables individuals to confront unexamined or unhelpful beliefs, gaining new insights through immersion in fictional experiences and learning to understand others' situations from alternative viewpoints.

    “Simultaneously, emotional engagement enables individuals to confront unexamined or unhelpful beliefs, gaining new insights through immersion in fictional experiences and learning to understand others’ situations from alternative viewpoints (65).”

    From Recent developments in bibliotherapy for adolescent depression (2025) · cites this paper as [65]

  • During reading, a combination of cognitive processes-such as recognition or assimilation, and reframing or accommodation-alongside emotional responses like empathy, memory activation, and character identification, are activated.

    “During reading, a combination of cognitive processes—such as recognition or assimilation, and reframing or accommodation—alongside emotional responses like empathy, memory activation, and character identification, are activated (36, 65).”

    From Recent developments in bibliotherapy for adolescent depression (2025) · cites this paper as [65]

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Authors
Oatley, K.
Affiliations
University of Toronto (CA)
Corresponding author
Oatley, Keith
ORCID
Oatley, Keith
Venue
Poetics
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
1999-08
Volume
26
Issue
5-6
Pages
439-454
ISSN
0304-422X (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/s0304-422x(99)00011-x
OpenAlex
W2040052812
Cited by
332
References
33
Citations by year
2026: 14 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 33 · 2023: 24 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 40 · 2020: 30 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 17 · 2016: 19 · 2015: 13 · 2014: 12 · 2013: 9 · 2012: 20
FWCI
32.75
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
Poetics (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Narrative Theory and Analysis
  • Social Sciences › Education › Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics
Keywords
sympathy, dialogue, Bakhtin, short stories, spectatorship, self-reflection, book clubs, reading experience

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