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PhD Psychology University of Sussex
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According to Wikipedia, Keith Oatley FRSC, FBPsS is an Anglo-Canadian novelist, and professor emeritus of cognitive psychology at the University of Toronto. His novel The Case of Emily V won the 1994 Commonwealth Prize for first novel.

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Towards a Cognitive Theory of Emotions (1987) (1805)
The Function of Fiction is the Abstraction and Simulation of Social Experience (2008) (866)
Best Laid Schemes: The Psychology of Emotions (1992) (613)
The language of emotions: An analysis of a semantic field (1989) (574)
Bookworms versus nerds: Exposure to fiction versus non-fiction, divergent associations with social ability, and the simulation of fictional social worlds (2006) (463)
A taxonomy of the emotions of literary response and a theory of identification in fictional narrative (1995) (439)
Why Fiction May be Twice as True as Fact: Fiction as Cognitive and Emotional Simulation (1999) (436)
Exploring the link between reading fiction and empathy: Ruling out individual differences and examining outcomes (2009) (355)
Basic emotions, rationality, and folk theory (1992) (337)
Emotion and narrative fiction: Interactive influences before, during, and after reading (2011) (290)
Structure of Knowledge (1972) (271)
Human emotions: function and dysfunction. (1992) (267)
Meetings of minds: Dialogue, sympathy, and identification, in reading fiction (1999) (253)
Fiction: Simulation of Social Worlds (2016) (207)
The communicative theory of emotions: Empirical tests, mental models, and implications for social interaction. (1996) (196)
Cognitive approaches to emotions (2014) (189)
On Being Moved by Art: How Reading Fiction Transforms the Self (2009) (174)
Understanding emotions, 2nd ed. (2006) (173)
A social-cognitive theory of depression in reaction to life events. (1985) (170)
A longitudinal study of social support and depression in unemployed men (1987) (170)
Reading other minds: Effects of literature on empathy (2013) (164)
Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction (2011) (162)
Human emotions : a reader (1998) (143)
Emotions: A Brief History (2004) (121)
Emotional effects of reading excerpts from short stories by James Joyce (1998) (115)
Nonconsequentialist decisions. Commentaries. Author's reply (1994) (110)
The experience of emotions in everyday life (1994) (101)
Information Flow in a User Interface: the Effect of Experience and Context on the Recall of MacWrite Screens (1988) (97)
Vernier acuity as affected by target length and separation (1972) (94)
Gender Issues in Education for Science and Technology: Current Situation and Prospects for Change. (1993) (79)
Osmotic inhibition of eating as a subtractive process. (1973) (63)
Communications to Self and Others: Emotional Experience and its Skills (2009) (59)
The Art in Fiction: From Indirect Communication to Changes of the Self (2014) (59)
Brain Mechanisms and Motivation (1970) (57)
Channels for spatial frequency selection and the detection of single bars by the human visual system. (1972) (55)
Perception of personal and interpersonal action in a cartoon film (1985) (53)
Dissociation of the Circadian Drinking Pattern from Eating (1971) (52)
Basic emotions: Theory and measurement (1992) (52)
Impact of Life Events and Difficulties on the Mental Health of Chinese Immigrant Women (2007) (51)
Extinction induced drinking in hungry rats. (1972) (51)
Memories and scientific literacy: remembering exhibits from a science centre (2000) (50)
Opening the Closed Mind: The Effect of Exposure to Literature on the Need for Closure (2013) (49)
Effects of reading on knowledge, social abilities, and selfhood: Theory and empirical studies (2008) (44)
Emotional episodes and emotionality through the life span. (1996) (44)
Emotions and Beliefs: The sentiments and beliefs of distributed cognition (2000) (43)
Changes of Blood Volume and Osmotic Pressure in the Production of Thirst (1964) (43)
Additivity of stimuli for drinking in rats. (1968) (43)
Cognition and Emotion over twenty-five years (2011) (41)
The Bitter-Sweet Labor of Emoting: The Linguistic Comparison of Writers and Physicists (2006) (40)
Psychopathology and short-term emotion: the balance of affects. (2000) (34)
The inner world. (2008) (33)
Perceptions and Representations: The Theoretical Bases of Brain Research and Psychology (1978) (33)
The Effect of Hunger on Water Intake in Rats (1969) (32)
The Passionate Muse: Exploring Emotion in Stories (2012) (30)
Creative expression and communication of emotions in the visual and narrative arts. (2003) (30)
Editorial: Cognitive science and the understanding of emotions (1987) (30)
Genre or artistic merit?: The effect of literature on personality (2012) (30)
Emotional intelligence and the intelligence of emotions. (2004) (29)
Writing as Thinking (2008) (28)
Basic Emotions in Social Relationships, Reasoning, and Psychological Illnesses (2011) (28)
Interpretative memories of artworks (2004) (26)
Scripts, Transformations, and Suggestiveness of Emotions in Shakespeare and Chekhov (2004) (26)
Influence of Husbands on the Outcome of their Agoraphobic Wives' Therapy (1987) (26)
The passage of food through the gut of rats and its uptake of fluid (1969) (25)
Love and personal relationships: Navigating on the border between the ideal and the real (2004) (25)
The cognitive science of fiction. (2012) (25)
Insulin and glucostatic control of feeding. (1972) (25)
Life stress, self-silencing, and domains of meaning in unipolar depression: An investigation of an outpatient sample of women (2002) (25)
Review of The creative process: a computer model of storytelling and creativity by Scott R. Turner. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 1994. (1995) (25)
Semantic primitives for emotions: A Reply to Ortony and Clore (1990) (25)
Defenseless against art? Impact of reading fiction on emotion in avoidantly attached individuals (2009) (24)
Two Movements in Emotions: Communication and Reflection (2010) (24)
EVOLUTIONARY PRE-ADAPTATION AND THE IDEA OF CHARACTER IN FICTION (2005) (23)
Shakespeare's Invention of Theater as Simulation that Runs on Minds (2001) (23)
Feeding and arteriovenous differences of blood glucose in rats after injection with 2-deoxy-D-glucose and after food deprivation. (1973) (22)
Appraisal, computational models, and scherer's expert system (1994) (22)
Psychiatric symptoms and conflict among personal plans. (1988) (21)
The Quotation Theory of Writing (2014) (20)
Feelings and Emotions: From the Emotions of Conversation to the Passions of Fiction (2004) (18)
Air drinking and the measurement of thirst (1970) (18)
Living together: a review of unnatural emotions: everyday sentiments on a Micronesian atoll and their challenge to Western theory, by Catherine A. LUTZ (1988) (1991) (18)
Designing minimal computer manuals from scratch (1992) (17)
Measuring the learnability of spreadsheets in inexperienced users and those with previous spreadsheet experience (1991) (17)
Creating fictional characters: The role of experience, personality, and social processes. (2017) (16)
How cues on the screen prompt emotions in the mind. (2013) (16)
The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness: Narrative Modes of Consciousness and Selfhood (2007) (16)
Cues to the Imagination in Memoir, Science, and Fiction (2010) (15)
COMMENTARIES Emotional Intelligence and the Intelligence of Emotions (2004) (14)
Plans and the Communicative Function of Emotions: A Cognitive Theory (1988) (14)
Action Centred Manuals or Minimalist Instruction? Alternative Theories for Carroll’s Minimal Manuals (1992) (14)
The Intentional and Social Nature of Human Emotions: Reconsideration of the Distinction Between Basic and Non‐basic Emotions (1996) (14)
Computer simulation of thirst and water balance (2007) (14)
In the Minds of Others (2011) (13)
On changing one's mind: a possible function of consciousness (1992) (13)
The science of fiction (2008) (13)
Psychology of Narrative Art (2018) (13)
The bug in the salad: the uses of emotions in computer interfaces (2004) (13)
Imagining Possible Worlds (2018) (12)
Fiction and its study as gateways to the mind (2011) (12)
Everyday Concepts of Emotions Following Every-Other-Day Errors in Joint Plans (1995) (12)
An Emotion's Emergence, Unfolding, and Potential for Empathy: A Study of Resentment by the “Psychologist of Avon” (2009) (11)
Freud's cognitive Psychology of Intention: The Case of Dora (1990) (11)
Simulation of Substance and Shadow: Inner Emotions and Outer Behavior in Shakespeare's Psychology of Character (2006) (11)
Inhibition of ad Libitum Feeding in Rats by Salt Injections and Water Deprivation (1972) (11)
Emotional Abuse as a Precipitating Factor for Depression in Women (1999) (11)
Judging the Order of Visual Stimuli (1969) (11)
A Longitudinal Study of Psychological and Social Factors Affecting Recovery from Psychiatric Breakdowns (1991) (10)
Rethinking the Role of Emotions in Education (2018) (10)
Diurnal influences on postdeprivational drinking in rats. (1967) (9)
Worlds of the possible: Abstraction, imagination, consciousness (2013) (9)
Part V: Cognitive factors. (2000) (9)
Drinking in response to salt injections at different times of day (1967) (8)
Pacific Arts of Navigation (1973) (8)
A view from the interior. (2011) (8)
On the definition and function of emotions (2007) (8)
Guided imagery in brief psychodynamic therapy: outcome and process. (1990) (7)
Emotions and Transformation Varieties of Experience of Identity (2002) (7)
Metonymy and Intimacy (2012) (7)
A control model of the physiological basis of thirst (1967) (7)
The Hierarchical Personality Structure of Aspiring Creative Writers (2014) (7)
Are there only two primitive emotions? A reply to frijda (1988) (6)
Memories prompted by emotions--emotions attached to memories: studies of depression and of reading fiction. (1999) (6)
Theory of Mind and Theory of Minds in Literature (2010) (6)
The Creativity of Literary Writing (2017) (6)
On the fragility of the artist: art’s precarious triad (2014) (5)
Joint plans, emotions, and relationships: A diary study of errors (2006) (5)
Serene Arts: The Effect of Personal Unsettledness and of Paintings' Narrative Structure on Personality (2012) (5)
Control of water-excretion by antidiuretic hormone: Some aspects of modelling the system (1977) (5)
Vignette 6: Emotions: Communications to the Self and others (1996) (5)
Probing the Brain (1971) (5)
How poetry evokes emotions. (2022) (5)
Hierarchy and its discontents. (2009) (5)
7. Emotion and reasoning to consistency: The case of abductive inference (2002) (4)
On Truth and Fiction (2017) (4)
Social Functions of Emotions in Life and Imaginative Culture (2022) (4)
Ask the experts: what is emotional intelligence and can it be taught? (2004) (4)
Cognitive science and the understanding of emotion (1987) (4)
Our Minds, Our Selves (2018) (4)
Rules we live by. (2009) (4)
Emotions and Human Flourishing (1997) (4)
Imagination, Inference, Intimacy: The Psychology of Pride and Prejudice (2016) (4)
Autonomic arousal in an antenatal clinic and its association with recall of information about pregnancy. (1984) (3)
Reading and Psychology I. Reading Minds: Fiction and Its Relation to the Mental Worlds of Self and Others (2019) (3)
Emotions, Simulation, and Abstract Art (2021) (3)
Presentation of self. (2017) (3)
Reading and literary landscapes: Experience and action from self-oriented and spectator perspectives (1997) (3)
Dante's love and the creation of a new poetry. (2007) (3)
Refutation and the appropriation of truth in psychoanalysis. (1982) (3)
Effects of literature on empathy (2013) (3)
Belief in common fate and psychological well-being among Chinese immigrant women (2009) (3)
Selves and others. (2013) (3)
An emotional climate. (2007) (3)
The space in between: The development of joint thinking and planning (2004) (3)
The Human Unconscious in Evolution (2019) (3)
The Reader and the Space-in-Between (2011) (3)
On the sharing of mind (2016) (2)
Forgetfulness of things past. (2009) (2)
Stories and Their Role in Social Cognition (2021) (2)
Experimental Method and Psychodynamic Theory: Discussion Paper (1985) (2)
Emotion in Cognition (2001) (2)
Gaps in consciousness: Emotions and memory in psychoanalysis (1988) (2)
Brain mechanisms and mind (1972) (2)
Movements in the mind. (2010) (2)
Basic Emotions : a special issue of Cognition and emotion (1992) (2)
Non-reinforcement and the emission of alternative responses by severely subnormal children. (2008) (2)
CONFLICT AND CONTROL AMONG MENTAL AGENTS (1986) (2)
Stage of life. (2013) (2)
Psychology and Narrative (2020) (2)
Book review: Memory in the Twenty-First Century: New Critical Perspectives from the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences (2018) (2)
7. Emotion and reasoning to consistency (2002) (2)
Emotional payoffs Film Structure and the Emotion System by Greg M. Smith, Cambridge University Press, 2003. $55.00/£40.00 (230 pages), ISBN 0 521 81758 7 (2004) (2)
The Case of Emily V. (1993) (2)
Other bodies, other minds. (2010) (2)
Changing a life. (2007) (1)
Selves in Relation: An Introduction to Psychotherapy and Groups (2016) (1)
Polynesian Voyagers (1973) (1)
Frequency Analysis of the Thirst Control System (1971) (1)
Between the Known and the Unknown. (2005) (1)
Cross-Cultural Forays: Commentary by Keith Oatley (Toronto) (2000) (1)
Not psychologists but psychology: A response to Gardner (1992) (1)
Cut Price Psychology (1970) (1)
Character, Action, Incident (2011) (1)
The bridge between us. (2005) (1)
Inhibition of ad libitum eating by salt injections and water deprivation (1972) (1)
Comprar Understanding Emotions | Keith Oatley | 9781405131032 | Wiley (2008) (1)
Development of social emotions and constructive agents (1996) (1)
Art as emotional exploration (2017) (1)
Representations of the physical and social world (2018) (1)
Modeling paranoia: The cargo cult metaphor (1981) (0)
Stephen T. Asma and Rami Gabriel. The Emotional Mind: The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition (2019) (0)
Conflict and cooperation in narrative fiction: then, now, and perhaps the future (1997) (0)
A RAT LEVER WITH REMOTELY VARIABLE INERTIA1 (1969) (0)
Human Choices (2019) (0)
Reliable computation in parallel networks (1985) (0)
Keeping our heads about our heads (1976) (0)
Book Review (1982) (0)
12. Feeling within the Self, Feeling for Others (2018) (0)
AISB summer school on knowledge systems (1974) (0)
Empathy in a bleak time. (2008) (0)
Comprar Emotions: A Brief History | Keith Oatley | 9781405113144 | Wiley (2008) (0)
Side effects: Limitations of human rationality (1994) (0)
Exploration and arrangement in physical and social worlds (2022) (0)
2. The Sad Case of Phineas Gage (2018) (0)
Two Views of Shame: The Exposed Self: Vicissitudes of the Self. (1993) (0)
Mechanics of the Mind. By Colin Blakemore. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1977. Pp 208. £10.50, £3.95 (paperback). (1978) (0)
3. Understanding Our ancestors, Understanding Our Emotions (2018) (0)
THEIR ROLE IN COPING WITH ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION (1984) (0)
Metonymy and Intimacy [Abstract] (2012) (0)
Brain as She is Spoke (1973) (0)
Emotional Disorders: Excesses of Sadness, Anxiety, Shame, and Anger (2008) (0)
The world within and the world outside. (2015) (0)
Theories of brain function (2017) (0)
Factors in Vigilance (1970) (0)
Visual Perception (1970) (0)
Beneath the surface. (2012) (0)
Book Reviews: The creative process: A computer model of storytelling and creativity (1995) (0)
A funny thing happened. (2007) (0)
Things one never gets over. (2008) (0)
Thanks to our guest reviewers (1992) (0)
Emotional Intelligence: What is it to be Emotionally Intelligent? Are There Skills to Learn? (2008) (0)
The right thing. (2011) (0)
EMOTIONS AND HUMAN HEALTH (2007) (0)
First thought, second thought. (2015) (0)
J.E. LeDoux W. Hirst (1988) (0)
Book Review: Hibernation and the Hypothalamus (1972) (0)
How stories shape us, and how we shape stories (2020) (0)
Drifting in the Pacific (1974) (0)
Discrete emotions discovered by contactless measurement of facial blood flows (2022) (0)
How Emotions Occur: A Reply to Commentaries by Neu, Sundararajan, and Reisenzein (2009) (0)
Evolution, Culture, and a Necessary Ambivalence: Inherited Repertoires of Emotion Built Upon by Culture and Experience (2008) (0)
Cognition: The Nature of Thought . Essays in Honor of D. O. Hebb. Peter W. Jusczyk and Raymond M. Klein, Eds. Erlbaum, Hillsdale, N.Y., 1980. xx, 256 pp., illus. $24.95. (1981) (0)
Effects of Fiction (2011) (0)
European AISB summer school on knowledge systems (1973) (0)
Trends and developments : Research on emotions (2007) (0)
Medicine for the Soul: From Epicureans and Stoics via the Seven Deadly Sins to Cognitive Therapy (2008) (0)
Caring in the community. (2012) (0)
Self-Help Groups for Agoraphobics: Their Role in Coping with Anxiety and Depression (1984) (0)
Anger (2018) (0)
Plans and the communicative of emotions: a cognitive theory (1988) (0)
Fiction as Dream (2011) (0)
The tenacity of an idea. (2010) (0)
A rat lever with remotely variable inertia. (1969) (0)
The time is now. (2017) (0)
17. Imagination, Stories, Empathy (2018) (0)
Only Project (2021) (0)
Imaginative Creativity in the Writing and Reading of Stories (2021) (0)
Creativity and its Discontents: The Weary Voyager Model of Creativity in Relation to Self (2017) (0)
Emotions and the Brain: Accidents, Imaging Technologies, the New Psychopharmacology (2008) (0)
Individual Histories: Emotional Development from Childhood to Maturity (2008) (0)
Book Review: Animal Models for Psychiatry (1987) (0)
Talking about Fiction (2011) (0)
Narrative in Mind (2021) (0)
Representations and schemata (2017) (0)
Comprar Such Stuff as Dreams - The Psychology of Fiction | Keith Oatley | 9780470974575 | Wiley (2010) (0)
The language of consciousness. (2008) (0)
Growing Up in America (2014) (0)
Why we feel: the science of human emotions;: By Victor S. Johnston, Reading, MA: Perseus Books, 1999, ix 1 210 pp., ISBN: 0-7382-0109-X, US$26.00 (2000) (0)
Challenges and Promises of a Social Functional Approach: Response to Commentaries (2022) (0)
Robots among us. (2005) (0)
Books Received July 15, 2005 to October 15, 2005 (2006) (0)
Selves in Relation (RLE: Group Therapy): An Introduction to Psychotherapy and Groups (2014) (0)
Comprar Human Emotions: A Reader | Jennifer Jenkins | 9780631207474 | Wiley (2008) (0)
Secular pilgrimage to places associated with writers, musicians, and visual artists (2021) (0)
Time into Mind. (1990) (0)
Empirical Studies of Whether Writing Augments the Mind (2008) (0)
The face of humanity. (2011) (0)
9. You Need Your Head Examined (2018) (0)
Meaning and Ambiguity: Emotions: Signals of What is Vital (2008) (0)
Book reviewMind and Brain: Dialogues in Cognitive Neuroscience, J.E. LeDoux, W. Hirst (Eds.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1987), p. xii (1988) (0)
Little did he know. (2007) (0)
In the picture. (2014) (0)
The Responsible Brain (1973) (0)
Book Review: Selected Papers (1972) (0)
Just for a laugh. (2009) (0)
Those to whom evil is done (1993) (0)
Jobless, homeless, friendless. (2009) (0)
Worlds of imagination. (2016) (0)
Power of observation. (2007) (0)
What should we do (2009) (0)
The Space‐In‐Between (2011) (0)
The psychology of cities. (2017) (0)
Projection and contempt. (2009) (0)
Things as they might be. (2012) (0)
Preface: Social Implications of Emotions (2017) (0)
Book Review: Feedback Mechanisms in Animal Behaviour (1972) (0)
Imagination in the Generation of Pictures and Interpersonal Scenarios (2021) (0)
Social Histories: Emotions and Relationships: Social Goals of Aggression, Attachment, Affiliation, and Their Mixtures (2008) (0)

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