Dan R. Johnson

Transportation into a story increases empathy, prosocial behavior, and perceptual bias toward fearful expressions

Dan R. Johnson · Personality and Individual Differences · 2011 · 321 citations

Cognitive Science, Behavioral Decision Making, Prosocial Behavior +13

Automating creativity assessment with SemDis: An open platform for computing semantic distance

Roger E. Beaty, Dan R. Johnson · Behavior Research Methods · 2020 · 285 citations · Full text

Potentiating empathic growth: Generating imagery while reading fiction increases empathy and prosocial behavior.

Dan R. Johnson, Grace K. Cushman, Lauren A. Borden et al. · Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts · 2013 · 129 citations

Behavioral Sciences, First-person Narrative, Prosocial Behavior +9

Participants at Your Fingertips

Dan R. Johnson, Lauren A. Borden · Teaching of Psychology · 2012 · 119 citations

Digital Storytelling, Interpersonal Communication, Narrative Fiction +10

Reading Narrative Fiction Reduces Arab-Muslim Prejudice and Offers a Safe Haven From Intergroup Anxiety

Dan R. Johnson, Daniel M. Jasper, Sallie Griffin et al. · Social Cognition · 2013 · 114 citations

First-person Narrative, Social Psychology, Empathy +21