DAY 3 – JULY 16
| Reception in Gathertown |
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| Icebreakers: Who is your favorite literary character? What will you take away from the conference that you can use in your research/life? |
8:45-10:05:
Parallel Session 4
| Characters and Fictional Worlds Chair: Julia de Jonge | Literature in/and Culture Chair: Simone Rebora |
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| The Role of Contextual Information in Identifying Character Motives: Proposing a Taxonomy of Content Features Catherine Marple | The Potential of Arts-Based Research for the Empirical Study of Literature Margrit Schreier |
| “I’m not Bad, I’m Just Drawn that Way”: Immoral Characters, Aesthetic Appreciation and Sympathy in Literary Reading Julia de Jonge | The Nature of the ART: Challenges in Developing an Author Recognition Test for a New Population Lilla Magyari |
| At the Heart of Optimal Reading Experiences: Cardiovascular Activity and Flow Experiences in Fiction Reading Birte Thissen | How Can I Attribute this Text? A Comparison Between Stylometry and Readers’ Perception Simone Rebora |
| New Insights on Fiction Feelings: The Impact of Frequent Reading on Eye-Tracking Data Anastasia Glawion | |
| Keynote Speaker: Meghan Sanders 10:05-11:05 |
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| Building a Better and Just World Through Fictional Narratives |
| Scholarship in media psychology has significantly expanded to investigate the role entertainment media and experiences play in encouraging audiences to think more deeply, feel inspired, encourage prosocialness, and otherwise serve in the interest of social good. Fictional narratives are a significant cultural force in that they can articulate identities and values of a culture, but also serve as sites where these same values and identities are discussed and challenged. They can sometimes do a better job than news in getting us to think about the most pressing and serious issues facing communities, nations, and broader society. In this keynote, Sanders will discuss various theoretical frameworks that could help advance our understanding of the psychological mechanisms related to the effects of narratives focused on social justice and those that encourage increased social consciousness. |
| Chair: Shannon Whitten |
| Fifteen Minute Break |
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| Take a breather, and maybe a moment away from your screen |
11:15 – 12:15 Workshop: “Setting up an International Minor for Empirical Literary Studies” |
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| We aim to broaden the scope of the empirical study of literature by translating instruments and materials in a broad range of languages and cultures. To that end we are currently setting up an international network of research groups to apply for a COST-Action Networking grant (www.cost.eu). With that grant we could stimulate cross-cultural replication within our field by developing a repository of Open Access measures, stimulus materials, protocols and data sets available in a wide range of languages. Ultimately, we would like to develop this endeavour into a course-based research experience for undergraduate students, in which we can teach undergraduate students research skills by involving them in multiple labs studies. We are looking for researchers in our IGEL community who would like to help us brainstorm issues like: What would need to be the basic modules in an (online) minor that teaches empirical literary studies to undergraduate students? |
| Workshop Leaders: Frank Hakemulder & Shannon Whitten |
| Fifteen Minute Break |
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| Treat yourself to some stretches…. or a cocktail! |
| 12:30 – 13:30 Meet for lunch in Gathertown |
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13:30-14:30:
Parallel Session 5
Empathy Chair: Lynn Eekhof | Literature and Self-Reflection Chair: María-Ángeles Martínez |
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| Engagement with Narrative Characters as a Function of Social-Cognitive Abilities and Linguistic Viewpoint Lynn Eekhof | Self as Point of View: The Authorial “I’s” Double-Presentation of Self as a Mechanism to Revise Core Beliefs Jacob Wilson |
| Does Viewing Fictional TV Series Improve Theory of Mind and Empathy? Jan Lenhart | An Empirical Study of Fictional Abuse Narrative and Pro-Social Reader Outcomes Within the Framework of Storyworld Possible Selves María-Ángeles Martínez |
| Democracy, Empathy, Literature: Encountering, Discovering, Listening to the Other in Formal Educational Contexts Nicoletta Chieregato | |
| Fifteen Minute Break |
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| We are almost there, you deserve a couple of days off after this! |
| General Assembly 14:45 – 15:45 |
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| Update about the goings on of our society: Next two conferences New board members Making SSOL open access Financial report |
| Closing Ceremony 15:45 – 16:30 |
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| Outstanding Student Award Closing Words Gathering |