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Richard J. Gerrig · 1993
A psychological study of how readers experience narrative worlds, examining the cognitive processes underlying transportation into narratives and the mechanisms by which authors achieve narrative effects.
Sequence ladder
Narrative Intelligence sources live outside the figurative image sequence ladder. Adaptive placement applies to image sequences, not this reading library.
What this book knows
Reading transports us into narrative worlds where fictional events reshape real cognition, emotion, and belief as if actually experienced.
mind-and-cognition
I have been transported to a narrative world: 'losing myself in it' — the reader enters a complete, separate scene as if physically present.
ENWP-RC-004'The strange invasion of my person by the thoughts of another' — cognitive psychologists ask what mental activities enable readers to inhabit real and narrative worlds simultaneously.
ENWP-RC-023Anomalous suspense arises as a natural consequence of narrative structure, neither requiring identification nor special strategic activity from the reader.
ENWP-RC-167Readers took longer to verify real-world facts while experiencing narrative suspense — fictional uncertainty measurably disrupts real-world cognition.
ENWP-RC-161transformation
Readers approach fictional narratives expecting lessons to be extracted; fictional information can in fact wield influence on real-world judgments.
ENWP-RC-211self-and-identity
Narratives can admonish us, point us in new directions, offer other eyes through which we might see — fiction as mirror for the self.
ENWP-RC-195Illuminates
6 published passages · book excerpt · research analysis
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