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Different Stories: How Literary and Popular Genre Fiction Relate to Folk Psychology and Folk Sociology
- Author(s):
- David Kidd (see profile)
- Date:
- 2016
- Group(s):
- TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature, TC Science and Literature
- Item Type:
- Conference paper
- Conf. Title:
- The 2016 MLA Annual Convention
- Conf. Org.:
- Modern Language Association
- Tag(s):
- cognitive science, mla16, Psychology
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6MP44
- Abstract:
- 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 point to the central roles of other forms of social cognition, such as stereotyping. Distinguishing between the first sort of social competence, "folk psychology," and the other, "folk sociology", helps to create a framework for making more specific predictions about the social psychological processes involved in and affected by reading fiction. Psychological studies of readers and other audiences of fiction are reviewed in terms of this framework, and initial empirical work to address related hypotheses is presented.
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- Status:
- Published
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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