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