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Meetings of minds: Dialogue, sympathy, and identification, in reading fiction
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“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
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“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).”
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“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).”
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Metadata
- 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)
- 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
- Locations
- Poetics (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Narrative Theory and Analysis
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › 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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