Raymond A. MAR

Associate Professor, York University

Field : Psychology

Research areas : Relation between social cognition and stories; Genre differences for fiction outcomes; Embodied cognition; Narrative transportation.

Relevant publications

Mar, R. A. (in press). Evaluating Whether Stories can Promote Social Cognition: Introducing the Social Processes and Content Entrained by Narrative (SPaCEN) Framework. Discourse Processe.

Mar, R. A. & Rain, M. (2015). Narrative fiction and expository nonfiction differentially predict verbal ability. Scientific Studies of Reading, 19, 419-433.

Mar, R. A. (2011). The neural bases of social cognition and story comprehension. Annual Review of Psychology, 62, 103-134.

See also : www.yorku.ca/mar