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 Soibel, A., Fong, K., Mullin, J. B., Jenkins, G., & Mar, R. A. (in press). Is self-monitoring related to social comparison? It depends how you ask. Individual Differences Research. XX, XX–XX.
   
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 Tackett, J. L., Slobodskaya, H. R., Mar, R. A., Deal, J., Halverson Jr., C. F., Baker, S. R., Pavlopoulos, V., Besevegis, E., & Wen, L. (in press). The hierarchical structure of childhood personality in five countries: Continuity from early childhood to early adolescence. Journal of Personality. XX, XX–XX.
   
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 Oatley, K., Mar, R. A., & Djikic, M. (in press). The psychology of fiction: Present and future. In I. Jaén & J. Simon (Eds.), Cognitive Literary Studies: Current Themes and New Directions (pp. XX–XX). Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
 
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 Hirsh, J. B., Mar, R. A., & Peterson, J. B. (2012). Psychological entropy: A framework for understanding uncertainty-related anxiety. Psychological Review. 119, 304–320.
 
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 Mar, R. A., Mason, M. F., & Litvack, A. D. (2012). How daydreaming relates to life satisfaction, loneliness, and social support: The importance of gender and daydream content. Consciousness and Cognition. 21, 401–407.
   
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 Spreng, R. N. & Mar, R. A. (2012). I remember you: A role for memory in social cognition and the functional neuroanatomy of their interaction. Brain Research, 1428 , 43–50.
 
Fong, K. & Mar, R. A. (2011). Exposure to narrative fiction versus expository nonfiction: Diverging social and cognitive outcomes. In F. Hakemulder (Ed.), De stralende lezer; wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar de invloed van het lezen. [The radiant reader; scientific research concerning the influence of reading] (pp. 55–68). Delft, NL: Eburon Academic.
   
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 Mar, R. A., Oatley, K., Djikic, M., & Mullin, J. (2011). Emotion and narrative fiction: Interactive influences before, during, and after reading. Cognition & Emotion. 25, 818–833.
   
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 Mar, R. A., Peskin, J., & Fong, K. (2011). Literary Arts and the Development of the Life Story. In T. Habermas (Ed.), The Development of Autobiographical Reasoning, New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 131, 73–84.
   
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 Mar, R. A. (2011). Deconstructing empathy. Emotion Review. 3, 113–114.
   
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 Mar, R. A. (2011). The neural bases of social cognition and story comprehension. Annual Review of Psychology, 62, 103–134.
 
   
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 Rabin, J. S., Gilboa, A., Stuss, D. T., Mar, R. A., & Rosenbaum, R. S. (2010). Common and unique neural correlates of autobiographical memory and theory of mind. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 1095–1111.
   
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 Mar, R. A., Tackett, J. L., & Moore, C. (2010). Exposure to media and theory-of-mind development in preschoolers. Cognitive Development, 25, 69–78
   
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 Peskin, J., Mar, R. A., & Bischoff, T. (2009). Advanced social cognition in the literary arts. In C. Milbraith & C. Lightfoot (Eds.), The Arts and Human Development (pp. 249–257). New York, NY: Routledge.
   
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 Mar, R. A., Oatley, K., & Peterson, J. B. (2009). Exploring the link between reading fiction and empathy: Ruling out individual differences and examining outcomes. Communications, 34, 407–428.
  PDF Supplementary Materials: Correlations between Big Five Personality and Exposure to Fiction and Nonfiction
   
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 Derrfuss, J. & Mar, R. A. (2009). Lost in localization: The need for a universal coordinate database. NeuroImage, 48, 1–7. (PDF includes 4 commentaries by Hamilton, Nielsen, Van Essen, Laird, Lancaster, and Fox.)
   

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 Spreng, R. N., Mar, R. A., & Kim, A. S. N. (2009). The common neural basis of autobiographical memory, prospection, navigation, theory of mind and the default mode: a quantitative meta-analysis. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21, 489–510.
   
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 Hynes, C. A. & Mar, R. A. (2009). A case study of long-term cognitive and social functioning following a right temporal lobectomy in infancy. NeuroCase, 15, 37–46.
   
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 Spreng, R. N., McKinnon, M. C., Mar, R. A., & Levine B. (2009). The Toronto Empathy Questionnaire: A factor-analytic solution to multiple empathy measures. Journal of Personality Assessment, 91, 62–71.
   
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 Mar, R. A., Oatley, K., & Djikic, M. (2008). Effects of reading on knowledge, social abilities, and selfhood: Theory and empirical studies. In S. Zyngier, M. Bortolussi, A. Chesnokova, & J. Auracher (Eds.). Directions in Empirical Literary Studies: In honor of Willie van Peer (pp. 127–137). Amsterdam, NL: John Benjamins. (uncorrected proof)
   

 


 

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Mar, R. A. & Oatley, K. (2008). The function of fiction is the abstraction and simulation of social experience. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 3, 173–192.
   

Mar, R. A., Kelley, W. M., Heatherton, T. F., & Macrae, C. N. (2007). Detecting agency from the biological motion of veridical versus animated agents. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2, 199–205.
   

Mar, R. A., & Macrae, C. N. (2006). Triggering the intentional stance. In G. Bock & J. Goode (Ed.). Empathy and Fairness. Novartis Symposium no. 278 (pp. 110–119, Discussion 119–132). Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons.
   

Mar, R. A., Oatley, K., Hirsh, J., dela Paz, J., & Peterson, J. B. (2006). Bookworms versus nerds: Exposure to fiction versus non-fiction, divergent associations with social ability, and the simulation of fictional social worlds. Journal of Research in Personality, 40, 694–712.

   

Mar, R. A., DeYoung, C. G., Higgins, D. M. & Peterson, J. B., (2006). Self-liking and self-competence separate self-evaluation from self-deception: Associations with personality, ability, and achievement. Journal of Personality, 74, 1047–1078

   

Oatley, K., & Mar, R. A. (2005). Evolutionary pre-adaptation and the idea of character in fiction. Culture and Evolutionary Psychology (Special Issue: Evolutionary perspectives on aesthetic and emotional processes; G. Cupchik, Ed.), 3, 181–196.
   

Mar, R. A. (2004). The neuropsychology of narrative: Story comprehension, story production and their interrelation. Neuropsychologia, 42, 1414–1434

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