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Cozby, P. C., Mar, R. A., & Rawn, C. D. (2020). Methods
in Behavioural Research (3rd Canadian Edition). Toronto,
CA: McGraw-Hill Education. * 100% of Dr. Mar's royalties from this textbook will be donated to these BIPOC charities: 1, 2, 3, 4 * * receipts available * |
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| Fong, K., Quinlan, J., & Mar, R. A. (in press). Select your character: Individual needs and avatar choice. Psychology of Popular Media. | |||
| Dunk, R. J. & Mar, R. A. (in press). Cognitive exploration drives engagement and re-engagement with imaginary worlds, but not spatial exploration as predicted by evolutionary theory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. | |||
| Ivanksi, C., Humphries, S., van Dalen-Oskam, K., & Mar, R. A. (in press). Do we judge fiction by the author’s gender? Journal of Media Psychology. | |||
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Ivanksi, C., Lo, R. F., & Mar, R. A. (2021). Pets and politics: Do liberals and conservatives differ in their preferences for cats versus dogs? Collabra, 7, 28391. | ||
| Ivanksi, C., Maslej, M. M., & Mar, R. A. (in press). Empirical approaches to studying emotion in literature: the case of gender. In Hogan, P. C., Irish, B., & Hogan, L. P. (Eds.) Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion. | |||
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Black, J. E., Barnes, J. L., Oatley, K., Tamir, D. I., Dodell-Feder, D., Richter, T., & Mar, R. A. (2021). Stories and their role in social cognition. In A. Jacobs & D. Kuiken (Eds.). The Handbook of Empirical Studies of Literature (pp. 229–250). Amsterdam, NL: John Benjamins. | ||
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Maslej, M. M., Quinlan, J. A., & Mar, R. A. (in press). Aesthetic responses to the characters, plots, worlds, and style of stories. In M. Nadal & O. Vartanian (Eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Aesthetics (pp. XX–XX). Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. | ||
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Rain, M. & Mar. R. A. (2021). Adult attachment and engagement with fictional characters. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 38, 2792–2813. | ||
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Cila, J., Lalonde, R. N., Sasaki, J. Y., & Mar, R. A. (2021). Zahra or Zoe, Arjun or Andrew? Bicultural Baby Names Reflect Identity and Pragmatic Concerns. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, 27, 307–319. | ||
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Mar, R. A., Li, J., Nguyen, A. T. P. & Ta, C. (2021). Memory and Comprehension of Narrative versus Expository Texts: A meta-analysis. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28, 732–749. | ||
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Schindler, J., Richter, T., & Mar, R. A. (2021). Does
Generation Benefit Learning for Narrative and Expository Texts? A
Direct Replication Attempt. Applied Cognitive Psychology,
35, 559–564. [Stage 1 Registered report] |
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Martin-Chang, S., Kozak, S., Levesque, K. C., Calarco, N., & Mar, R. A. (2021). What’s your pleasure? Exploring the predictors of leisure reading for fiction and nonfiction. Reading & Writing, 34, 1387–1414. | ||
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Maslej, M. M., Mar, R. A., & Kuperman, V. (2021). The textual features of fiction that appeal to readers: Emotion and abstractness. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 15, 272–283. | ||
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Quinlan, J. A., & Mar, R. A. (2020). How imagination supports narrative experiences for textual, audiovisual, and interactive narratives. In A. Abraham (Ed.). The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination (pp. 466–478). Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. | ||
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van Monsjou, E. & Mar,
R. A. (2019). Interest and investment in romances. Psychology
of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 13,
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Chung-Fat-Yim, A., Cilento, E., Piotrowska, E., & Mar, R. A. (2019). Are stories just as transporting when not in your native tongue? Language & Cognition, 11, 285–309. | ||
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Bainbridge, T., Quinlan, J. A., Mar, R. A., & Smilie, L. D. (2019) Openness/Intellect and Susceptibility to Pseudo-Profound Bullshit: A Replication and Extension. European Journal of Personality, 33, 72–88. | ||
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Mar, R. A. (2018). Stories and the promotion of social cognition. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 27, 257–262. | ||
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Mar, R. A. (2018). Evaluating Whether Stories can Promote Social Cognition: Introducing the Social Processes and Content Entrained by Narrative (SPaCEN) Framework. Discourse Processes, 5/6, 454–479. | ||
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Erentzen, C., Quinlan, J. A., & Mar, R. A. (2018). Sometimes You Need More than a Wingman: Masculinity, femininity and the role of humor in men’s mental health help-seeking campaigns. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 37, 128–157. | ||
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Mar, R. A. & Spreng, R. N. (2018). Episodic memory solves many problems, both social and nonsocial, and likely evolved to fulfill a diverse range of functions. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41, e20. | ||
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Zacks, J., Mar, R. A., & Calarco, N. (2018). The Cognitive Neuroscience of Discourse: Covered Ground and New Directions (pp. 269–294). In D. Rapp, A. Britt, & M. Schober (Eds.) Handbook of Discourse Processes, 2nd ed. New York, NY: Routledge. | ||
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Calarco, N., Fong,
K., Rain, M.
& Mar, R. A. (2017). Absorption in narrative fiction and its
possible impact on social abilities (pp. 293–313). In F.
Hakemulder, M. M. Kuijpers, E. S. H. Tan, K. Balint, & M. M.
Doicaru (Eds.). The Handbook of Narrative Absorption. Amsterdam:
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Maslej, M. M., Oatley, K., & Mar, R. A. (2017). Creating fictional characters: The role of experience, personality, and social processes. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 11, 487–499. | ||
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Rule, N. O., Mar, R., & Bjornsdottir, R. T. (2017). Cultural neuroscience insights to individual differences and personality (pp. 59–86). In A. T. Church (Ed.), The Praeger Handbook of Personality across Cultures, Vol. 3. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger. | ||
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McCreath, G. A., Linehan, C. M. J., & Mar, R. A. (2017). Can Differences in Word Frequency Explain Why Narrative Fiction is a Better Predictor of Verbal Ability than Nonfiction? A corpus linguistic analysis. Discourse Processes, 54, 373–381. | ||
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Chung-Fat-Yim, A., Peterson, J. B., & Mar, R. A. (2017). Validating Self-paced Sentence-by-Sentence Reading: Story comprehension, recall, and narrative transportation. Reading and Writing, 30, 857–869. | ||
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Rain, M., Cilento, E., MacDonald, G., & Mar, R. A. (2017). Adult attachment and transportation into narrative worlds. Personal Relationships, 24, 49–74. | ||
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Till, B., Truong, F., Mar, R. A., & Niederkrotenthaler, T. (2016). Blurred world view: A study on the relationship between television viewing and the perception of the justice system. Death Studies, 40, 538–546. | ||
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Oatley, K., Djikic, M., & Mar, R. A. (2016). The Inwardness of James Joyce’s Story, “The Dead.” Readings, 2, 1–14. | ||
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Mar, R. A. & Rain, M. (2015). Narrative fiction and expository nonfiction differentially predict verbal ability. Scientific Studies of Reading, 19, 419-433. | ||
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Fong, K., Mullin, J. B., & Mar, R. A. (2015). How exposure to literary genres shapes attitudes toward gender roles and sexual behaviour. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 9, 274-285. | ||
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Chow, H. M., Mar, R. A., Xu, Y., Liu, S., Wagage, S., & Braun, A. R. (2015). Personal experience with narrated events modulates functional connectivity within visual and motor systems during story comprehension. Human Brain Mapping, 36, 1494-1505. | ||
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Fong, K. & Mar, R. A. (2015). What does my avatar say about me?: Inferring personality from avatars. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41, 237-249 | ||
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Hassabis, D., Spreng, R. N., Rusu, A. A., Robbins, C. A., Mar, R. A. & Schacter, D. L. (2014). Imagine all the people: How the brain creates and uses personality models to predict behavior. Cerebral Cortex, 24, 1979-1987. | ||
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Rain, M. & Mar, R. A. (2014). Measuring reading behaviour: Examining the predictive validity of print-exposure checklists. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 32, 93-108. | ||
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Maslej, M. M., Rain, M., Fong, K., Oatley, K., & Mar, R. A. (2014). The hierarchical personality structure of aspiring creative writers. Creativity Research Journal, 26, 192-202. | ||
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Moran, J. M., Rain, M.,
Page-Gould, E., & Mar, R. A. (2014). Do I Amuse You?
Asymmetric predictors for humor appreciation and humor production.
Journal of Research in
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Chow, H. M., Mar, R. A., Xu, Y., Liu, S., Wagage, S., & Braun, A. R. (2014). Embodied comprehension of stories: Interactions between language regions and modality-specific neural systems. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26, 279-295. | ||
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Fong, K., Mullin, J. B., & Mar, R. A. (2013). What you read matters: The role of fiction genres in predicting interpersonal sensitivity. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 7, 370-376. | ||
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Nagel, J., Mar, R. A., & San Juan, V. (2013). Authentic
Gettier Cases: A reply to Starmans and Friedman. Cognition,
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Nagel, J., San Juan, V., & Mar, R. A. (2013). Lay denial of
knowledge for justified true beliefs. Cognition, 129,
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Xu, X., Mar, R. A., & Peterson, J. B. (2013). Does cultural exposure partially explain the association between personality and political orientation? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39, 1497-1517. | ||
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Mason, M. F., Brown, K., Mar, R. A. & Smallwood, J. (2013). Driver of discontent or escape vehicle: The affective consequences of mindwandering. Frontiers in Perception Science, 4, article 477. | ||
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Mar, R. A., Spreng, R. N., & DeYoung, C. G. (2013). How to produce personality neuroscience research with high statistical power and low additional cost. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 13, 674-685. | ||
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Hirsh, J. B., Mar, R. A., & Peterson, J. B. (2013). Personal narratives as the highest level of cognitive integration. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36, 216-217. | ||
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Soibel, A., Fong, K., Mullin, J. B., Jenkins, G., & Mar, R. A. (2012). Is self-monitoring related to social comparison? It depends how you ask. Individual Differences Research, 4, 193-201. | ||
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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. (2012). The hierarchical structure of childhood personality in five countries: Continuity from early childhood to early adolescence. Journal of Personality, 80, 1-33. | ||
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Oatley, K., Mar, R. A., & Djikic, M. (2012). The psychology of fiction: Present and future. In I. Jaen & J. Simon (Eds.), Cognitive Literary Studies: Current Themes and New Directions (pp. 235-249). 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. | ||
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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. | ||
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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. |
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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. | ||
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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. | ||
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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. |
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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 |
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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. | ||
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Mar, R. A. (2004). The neuropsychology of narrative: Story comprehension, story production and their interrelation. Neuropsychologia, 42, 1414-1434 |
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