The function of fiction is the abstraction and simulation of social experience

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

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Journal article

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Primary research

Year

2008

Link

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-6924.2008.00073.xmatched

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communication_media_studies

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• Narrative Persuasion
  • The transfer is structural, not metaphorical — each case has the same load-bearing mechanism even though the medium, content, and stakes differ enormously, a pattern Mar and Oatley (2008) ground in the simulation function of fiction as the cross-substrate cognitive abstraction of social experience that makes story-based learning work.

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