Speakers
Our invited speakers come from a range of disciplines, including anthropology, communication, education, literary studies, neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology.
Matthew A. Bezdek
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences,
Washington University in St. Louis
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Cognitive Processes in the Moment of Narrative Experience
Lisa Fazio
Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University
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Learning Correct and Incorrect Information from Fictional Stories: Is fiction special?
Melanie C. Green
Department of Communication, University at Buffalo
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Stories for Social Good
Chantelle Ivanski
Department of Psychology,
York University
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Evaluations of Fiction Passages Based on Author Gender
Patrick Hogan
Department of English,
University of Connecticut
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Stories Come From Feelings: On particular causes and universal genres
Angela Nyhout
School of Psychology,
University of Kent
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Children’s Understanding of Storytellers’ Intentions
Keith Oatley
Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development,
University of Toronto
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Character in Fiction and Everyday Life
Mary Gabrielle Prezioso
Human Development, Harvard University
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Children’s Story World Absorption in Avid and Occasional Readers
Gabrielle Starr
English and Neuroscience,
Pomona College
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Poetry as Fiction, with a Cognitive Turn
Michelle Scalise Sugiyama
Anthropology,
University of Oregon
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To Build a Fire: Fire knowledge encoded in forager oral tradition
Vaunam Venkadasalam
Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development,
University of Toronto
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Does Genre Matter when Teaching KindergartenersScience Concepts?
