Activity – David Kidd – Humanities Commons

David Kidd uploaded the file: Comparing literary and popular genre fiction: Theory of mind, moral judgments, & perceptions of characters to Narrative Empathy, Insecurity, and the Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month ago

Hi all, I have uploaded here a slide deck summarizing a series of experiments testing the effects of reading literary and popular genre fiction stories on theory of mind and moral judgments. In addition, two experiments compared readers’ ratings of how predictable and stereotypical characters are in literary and popular genre fiction.
David Kidd deposited Different Stories: How Literary and Popular Genre Fiction Relate to Folk Psychology and Folk Sociology on MLA Commons 10 years ago

This paper proposes that readers understand the social content of fiction using the same sociocognitive processes they use in the real world. Much of the extant empirical work on the effects of reading fiction on social cognition have focused on individuating processes, such as theory of mind and empathy. Yet, decades of social psychological work…[Read more]
David Kidd became a registered member on MLA Commons 10 years ago

David Kidd