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Action and Consequence: The Psychology of Detective Stories, by Keith Oatley and Jennifer Jenkins, is written as a novel, to ask: “Why do w...

Mental health is a pressing concern for university students, with increasing numbers of students seeking mental health services in recent ye...

Although a great deal of research has examined whether stories help to promote social cognition, most of this work has been on adults and no...

Over the years the writers of articles for OnFiction have argued that short stories and novels, as well as plays, films, and nowadays some v...

Theory of Mind, or mentalizing, is an aspect of cognitive empathy that refers to the ability to understand that others have mental states an...

The idea of “schema” was central to Frederic Bartlett’s book of 1932,   Remembering, where  he described a series of experiments in which pe...

Birte Thissen, with colleagues Winfried Menninghaus (Director of the Department of Language and Literature at the Max Planck Institute for E...

  Mollie Panter-Downes became well known for her column in the   New Yorker   on life in London during World War II (republished as   London...

The novella,   The Hour of the Star,   by Clarice Lispector, is unlike anything else I have read. This review can be thought of as follow...

In OnFiction’s series of television series, we ought perhaps to have started with the series that really started it all: “The Wire.” It w...

Borgen  (which means “The Castle,” nickname for the building in Copenhagen that contains the Parliament, Prime Minister’s office, and S...