tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455277388900637928.post2125342006708143159..comments2024-03-19T02:14:31.704-04:00Comments on <center>OnFiction</center>: Emulating Fictional HabitsKeith Oatleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16419339550879570935noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455277388900637928.post-17873868335286995252009-07-04T19:46:15.045-04:002009-07-04T19:46:15.045-04:00I think Peter De Vries wrote a novel about an aspi...I think Peter De Vries wrote a novel about an aspiring novelist who decided his key to success was to emulate all of the bad qualities of all of the famous authors.Paul Lambhttp://www.paullamb.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455277388900637928.post-89664959570399909512009-02-15T13:24:00.000-05:002009-02-15T13:24:00.000-05:00And then there's the fascinating relationship betw...And then there's the fascinating relationship between the words and the embodied feeling -- here I'm thinking of the research about how making certain faces (of disgust or happiness, for example) elicit those feelings, even cross-culturally. So "smile," as a word, has impact that cannot be described only as semantic. It's interesting to consider how these somewhat basic and unconditioned responses relate to more learned associations (as in my example of tipping my head like Kidman-as-Woolf to focus a particular kind of thought) -- so if you'd never actually tried a lemon, how much would imagining scrunching up your face simulate what one was like?Kirsten Valentine Cadieuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04781128427942978109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455277388900637928.post-58383097189388685062009-02-12T13:19:00.000-05:002009-02-12T13:19:00.000-05:00I wonder too if reading fiction doesn't give us th...I wonder too if reading fiction doesn't give us the vocabulary for describing certain actions we emulate. For example, I know I cam across the term "scrunching up" one's face in some book from my youth. And I equated it with the face one makes after drinking lemon juice. This concept would have never entered my lexicon had it not been for that book--James and the Giant Peach maybe?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com