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Reader Empathy

Reader Empathy is a psychological construct in true crime writing that denotes the reader’s capacity to cognitively and affectively share and understand the emotional experiences of victims, survivors, or perpetrators as mediated through narrative representation.

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7K

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154

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77

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2017–2026

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Publications

101

The Function of Fiction is the Abstraction and Simulation of Social Experience

Raymond A. Mar, Keith Oatley · Perspectives on Psychological Science · 2008 · 1.3K citations

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How Does Fiction Reading Influence Empathy? An Experimental Investigation on the Role of Emotional Transportation

P. Matthijs Bal, Martijn Veltkamp · PLoS ONE · 2013 · 570 citations · Full text

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Exploring the link between reading fiction and empathy: Ruling out individual differences and examining outcomes

Raymond A. Mar, Keith Oatley, Jordan B. Peterson · Communications · 2009 · 537 citations

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Eighteenth-century sensibility and the novel: the senses in social context

Choice Reviews Online · 1993 · 371 citations

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Empathic Engagement with Narrative Fictions

Amy Coplan · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism · 2004 · 295 citations · Full text

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Authors

154

  1. KO
    Keith Oatley

    University of Toronto, Canada

    5 publications · 2.1K citations

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  2. EM
    Eva Maria Koopman

    Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

    4 publications · 499 citations

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  3. MD
    Maja Djikic

    University of Toronto, Canada

    2 publications · 293 citations

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  4. MC
    Marco Caracciolo

    Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

    2 publications · 96 citations

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  5. GC
    Gregory Currie

    University of Otago, New Zealand

    2 publications · 77 citations

    2

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Institutions

77

  1. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    6 h-index

    9 publications

    3.2K citations

  2. Erasmus University Rotterdam

    Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    714 citations

  3. Utrecht University

    Utrecht, The Netherlands

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    52 citations

  4. Kyoto University

    Kyoto, Japan

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    193 citations

  5. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    595 citations

  6. York University

    Toronto, Canada

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    1.8K citations

  7. Schizophrenia Research Institute

    Sydney, Australia

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    46 citations

  8. University of Technology Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    46 citations

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Venues

  1. Scientific Study of Literature

    5 publications · 301 citations

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  3. Poetics

    3 publications · 201 citations

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  4. Narrative

    3 publications · 138 citations

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  5. Poetics Today

    3 publications · 94 citations

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