Keith Oatley
Cognitive psychologist and novelist who studies emotions and the psychology of fiction, discussing simulation, abduction, and how narrative experience engages inference and feeling.
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Jan 19, 2019 • 0sec
Modes of Thought Part Two
Keith Oatley, cognitive psychologist and novelist exploring fiction as emotional simulation. Carol Feldman, research psychologist studying how genre and culture shape interpretation. Jerome Bruner, influential theorist of narrative vs. analytical thought. They discuss narrative vs. paradigmatic modes, how genre and culture guide meaning, fiction as simulation and practice, and abduction as everyday reasoning.
