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Oatley, K. (1964).  Changes in blood volume and osmotic pressure in the production of thirst.  Nature, 202, 1341-1342.
Oatley, K., Bryant, P.E., & Tinson, C.M. (1965).  Non-reinforcement and the emission of alternative responses by severely sub-normal children.  Journal of Mental Deficiency Research, 9, 191-200.
Oatley, K. (1967).  A control model of the physiological basis of thirst. Medical and Biological Engineering, 5, 225-237. 
Oatley, K. (1967).  Diurnal influences on post-deprivational drinking in rats. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 64, 183-185.
Oatley, K. (1967).  Drinking in response to salt injections at different times of day. Psychonomic Science, 9, 439-440.
Fitzsimons, J.T., & Oatley, K. (1968).  Additivity of stimuli for drinking in rats.  Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 66, 450-455.
Oatley, K., & Tonge, D. (1969).  The effect of hunger on the water intake of rats.  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 21, 162-171.
Oatley, K., Robertson, A.D.J., & Scanlan P.M. (1969).  Judging the order of visual events.  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 21, 172-179.
Oatley, K., & Toates, F.M. (1969).  The passage of food through the gut and its uptake of fluid.  Psychonomic Science, 16, 225-226.
Oatley, K. (1969).  A rat lever with remotely variable inertia.  Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 12, 843-844.
Oatley, K. (1970).  Brain mechanisms and motivation.  Nature, 225, 797-801.
Toates, F.M., & Oatley, K. (1970).  Computer simulation of thirst and water balance. Medical and Biological Engineering, 8, 71-87.
Oatley, K., & Dickinson, A. (1970).  Air drinking and the measurement of thirst.  Animal Behaviour, 18, 259-265.
Oatley, K. (1971).  Dissociation of the circadian drinking pattern from eating.  Nature, 229, 494-496.
Oatley, K., & Toates, F.M. (1971).  Frequency analysis of the thirst control system.  Nature, 232, 562-564.
Panksepp, J., Tonge, D., & Oatley, K. (1972).  Insulin and glucostatic control of feeding. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 78, 226-232.
Sullivan, G.D., Georgeson, M.A., & Oatley, K. (1972).  Channels for spatial frequency selection and the detection of single bars by the human visual system.  Vision Research, 12, 383-394.
Toates, F.M., & Oatley, K. (1972).  Inhibition of ad-libitum eating in rats by salt injections and and water deprivation.  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 24, 215-224.
Panksepp, J., Toates, F.M., & Oatley, K. (1972).  Extinction-induced drinking in hungry rats. Animal Behaviour, 20, 493-498.
Sullivan, G.D, Oatley, K., & Sutherland, N.S. (1972). Vernier acuity as influenced by line length and separation.  Perception and Psychophysics, 12, 438-444.
Oatley, K., & Toates, F.M. (1973). Osmotic inhibition of eating as a subtractive process. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 82, 268-277.
Tonge, D., & Oatley, K. (1973).  Feeding and arterio-venous differences of blood glucose in rats after injection with 2-deoxy-D-glucose and after food deprivation. Physiology and Behavior, 10, 497-505.
Oatley, K. (1976). Keeping our heads about our heads (Psychosurgery). Nature, 260, 660.
Oatley, K. (1981). Modelling paranoia: Commentary on K. Colby's 'Modelling a paranoid mind'. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 4, 545-546.
Oatley, K. (1982).  Refutation and the appropriation of truth in psychoanalysis. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 55, 1-11.
Trust, J., & Oatley, K. (1984).  Autonomic arousal in an ante-natal clinic and its association with recall of information about pregnancy. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 23, 229-230.
Oatley, K. (1985). Reliable computation in parallel networks. Commentary on J.A. Feldman's 'Four frames suffice: A provisional model of vision and space'.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 8, 299.
Oatley, K. (1985). Experimental method and psychodynamic theory.  Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 78, 729-738.
Oatley, K., & Bolton, W. (1985).  A social-cognitive theory of depression in reaction to life events. Psychological Review, 92, 372-388.
Oatley, K., & Yuill, N. (1985). Perception of personal and inter-personal action in a cartoon film. British Journal of Social Psychology, 24, 115-124.
Bolton, W.,  & Oatley,  K.  (1985). Plans, depression and the experience of time. Teorie & Modelli, 2, Suppl 2, 183-197.
Oatley, K. (1987). Cognitive science and the understanding of emotions. Cognition and Emotion, 1, 209-216.
Oatley, K. (1987). Expression of emotions in psychotherapy and art. Teorie & Modelli, 3, 19-35. 
Oatley, K., & Hodgson, D. (1987). The influence of husbands on the outcome of their agoraphobic wives' therapy. British Journal of Psychiatry, 150, 380-386.
Oatley K., & Johnson-Laird, P.N. (1987). Towards a cognitive theory of emotions. Cognition and Emotion, 1, 29-50.
Bolton, W., and Oatley, K. (1987). A longitudinal study of social support and depression in unemployed men.  Psychological Medicine, 17, 453-460.
Oatley, K., Sullivan, G.D., & Hogg, D. (1988). Drawing visual conclusions from analogy: A theory of preprocessing, cues and schemata in the perception of three dimensional objects. Journal of Intelligent Systems, 1, 97-133.
Johnson-Laird, P.N., & Oatley, K. (1988). Are there only two primitive emotions? A reply to Frijda. Cognition and Emotion, 2, 89-93.
Mitchell, M.C., McLay, W.D.S., & Oatley, K. (1988). The affective state of officers convalescing after accidental injury both on and off duty. The Police Surgeon, 34, 81-91.
Perring, C., Oatley, K., & Smith, J. (1988). Psychiatric symptoms and conflict among personal plans. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 61, 167-177.
Johnson-Laird, P.N.,  & Oatley, K. (1989). The  language of emotions: An analysis of a semantic field. Cognition and Emotion, 3, 81-123.
Button, C.G., Oatley, K., & Draper, S.W. (1989). Applying features of purposeful conversation to an intelligent tutoring system for children's acquisition of a second language. Cognitive Systems, 2-3, 261-273.
Oatley, K. (1990). Freud's psychology of intention: The case of Dora.  Mind and Language, 5, 69-86. (Reprinted in Consciousness, Ed. M. Davies & G.W. Humphries, Oxord: Blackwell, 1993, pp. 90-104.)
Oatley, K., & Johnson-Laird, P.N. (1990). Semantic primitives for emotions: A reply to Ortony and Clore. Cognition and Emotion, 4, 129-143.
Feinberg-Moss, B.B., & Oatley, K. (1990). Guided imagery in brief psychodynamic therapy: Outcome and process.  British Journal of Medical Psychology, 63, 117-129.
Oatley, K., & Perring, C. (1991). A longitudinal study of psychological and social factors affecting recovery from psychiatric breakdown. British Journal of Psychiatry, 158, 28-32.
Baxter, I., & Oatley, K. (1991). Measuring the learnability of spreadsheets in inexperienced users and those with previous spreadsheet experience. Behaviour and Information Technology, 10, 475-490.
Johnson-Laird, P.N., & Oatley, K. (1992). Basic emotions, rationality, and folk theory. Cognition and Emotion, 6, 201-223.
Stein, N.L., & Oatley, K. (1992).  Basic emotions: Theory and measurement.  Cognition and Emotion, 6, 161-168.
Oatley, K. (1992). Not psychologists but psychology:  A response to Gardner.  New Ideas in Psychology, 10, 207-214.
Oatley, K., & Johnson-Laird, P.N. (1992). Terms of emotion: The inferences that can be drawn. Revista de Psicologia Social, 7, 97-104.
Ramsay, J. E., & Oatley, K. (1992). Designing minimal computer manuals from scratch.  Instructional Science, 21, 85-98.
Acker, S., & Oatley, K. (1993). Gender issues in education for science and technology:  Current situation and prospects for change. Canadian Journal of Education, 18, 255-272.
Oatley, K. (1994).  Side effects: Limitations of human rationality. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 17, 24-25.
Chwelos, G., & Oatley, K.(1994). Appraisal, computational models and Scherer's expert system. Cognition and Emotion, 8, 245-257.
Oatley, K., & Duncan, E. (1994). The experience of emotions in everyday life. Cognition and Emotion, 8, 369-381.
Oatley, K. (1994). A taxonomy of the emotions of literary response and a theory of identification in fictional narrative. Poetics, 23, 53-74.
Oatley, K. (1996). Building knowledge and habits during evolution and the lifetime. La Nuova Critica, Nuova Serie, 27-28, 43-67.
Ben Ze’ev, A., & Oatley, K. (1996). The intentional and social nature of human emotions: Reconsideration of the distinctions between basic and non-basic emotions. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 26, 81-92.
Ben Ze'ev, A., & Oatley, K. (1996). Development of social emotions and constructive agents. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 19, 124-125.
Grazzani-Gavazzi, I., Groppo, M., Confalonieri, E.,  Calvino, E., Camisasca, E., & Oatley, K. (1996). Piani condivisi non riusciti ed emozioni: Una prospettiva cross-culturale (Thwarted shared plans and emotions: A cross-cultural perspective).  Ricerche di Psicologica, 20, 133-160.
Oatley, K. (1997). Conflict and cooperation in narrative fiction: then, now, and perhaps in the future. Spiel, 16, 247-250
Oatley, K. (1998). Emotion. The Psychologist, 11, 285-288.
Cupchik, G. C., Oatley, K., & Vorderer, P. (1998). Emotional effects of reading excerpts from short stories by James Joyce. Poetics, 25, 363-377.
Grazzani-Gavazzi, I., & Oatley, K. (1999). The experience of emotions of interdependence and independence following interpersonal errors in Italy and Anglophone Canada. Cognition and Emotion, 13, 49-63.
*Oatley, K. (1999). Why fiction may be twice as true as fact: Fiction as cognitive and emotional simulation. Review of General Psychology, 3, 101-117.
Oatley, K. (1999).  Meetings of minds: Dialogue, sympathy, and identification, in reading fiction. Poetics, 26, 439-454.
Ali, A., Oatley, K., &  Toner, B. (1999). Emotional abuse as a precipitating factor for depression in women. Journal of Emotional Abuse, 1, 1-13.
Oatley, K. &  Kerr, A. (1999). Memories prompted by emotions—emotions attached to memories: Studies of depression and of reading fiction. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, 27, 659-671.
Jenkins, J. M. & Oatley, K. (2000). Psychopathology and short-term emotions: the balance of affects. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 41, 463-472.
Medved, M.I. & Oatley, K. (2000). Memory and science literacy: Remembering exhibits from a science center.  International Journal of Science Education, 22, 1117-1132.
Oatley, K. (2001). Shakespeare’s invention of theatre as simulation that runs on minds. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 19, 27-45.
Oatley, K. & Djikic, M. (2002). Emotions and transformation: Varieties of experience of identity. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 9-10, 97-116.
Ali, A., Oatley, K. & Toner, B. (2002).  Life stress, self-silencing, and domains of meaning in unipolar depression: An investigation of an outpatient sample of women. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 21, 669-685.
Medved, M.I., Cupchik, G.C, &  Oatley, K. (2004) Interpretive memories of artworks. Memory, 12, 119-128.
Djikic, M. & Oatley, K. (2004). Love and personal relationships: Navigating on the border between the ideal and the real. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 34, 199-209.
Oatley, K. (2004). Emotional intelligence and the intelligence of emotion. Psychological Inquiry, 15, 216-222.
Oatley, K. (2004). The bug in the salad: The uses of emotions in computer interfaces. Interacting with computers, 16, 693-696.
Oatley, K. (2004). Scripts, transformations, and suggestiveness, of emotions in Shakespeare and Chekhov. Review of General Psychology, 8, 323-340.
Oatley, K. & Mar, R.A. (2005). Evolutionary pre-adaptation and the idea of character in fiction. Culture and Evolutionary Psychology, 3, 181-196.
Oatley, K. (2006). Simulation of substance and shadow: Inner emotions and outer behavior in Shakespeare’s psychology of character. College Literature, 33, 15-33.
*Djikic, M, Oatley, K. & Peterson, J. (2006). The bitter-sweet labor of emoting: The linguistic comparison of writers and physicists. Creativity Research Journal, 18, 191-197.
Larocque, L. & Oatley, K. (2006). Joint plans, emotions, and relationships: A diary study of errors. Journal of Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology, 3-4, 245-265.
*Mar, R.A., Oatley, K., Hirsh, J., dela Paz, J., & Peterson, J.B. (2006). Bookworms versus nerds: The social abilities of fiction and non-fiction readers. Journal of Research in Personality, 40, 694-712.
Oatley, K. (2007). Slings and arrows: Depression and life events. The Psychologist, 20, 228-230.
*Oatley, K. (2007). Dante’s love and the creation of a new poetry. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 1, 140-147.
Tang, T.N., Oatley, K., & Toner, B. B. (2007). Impact of life events and difficulties on the mental health of Chinese immigrant women. Journal of Immigrant Minority Health, 9, 281-290.
*Oatley, K. & Djikic, M. (2008) Writing as thinking. Review of General Psychology, 12, 9-27.
*Mar, R.A. & Oatley, K. (2008). The function of fiction is the abstraction and simulation of social experience. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 3, 173-192.
*Oatley, K. (2008). The mind’s flight simulator. The Psychologist, 21, 1030-1032.
Oatley, K. (2009). An emotion's emergence, unfolding, and potential for empathy: A study of resentment by "The Psychologist of Avon". Emotion Review, 1, 31-37.

*Djikic, M., Oatley, K., Zoeterman, S., & Peterson, J. (2009a). On being moved by art:  How reading fiction transforms the self. Creativity Research Journal, 21, 24-29.

Djikic, M., Oatley, K., Zoeterman, S., & Peterson, J. (2009b). Defenceless against art? Impact of reading fiction emotion in avoidantly attached individuals. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 14-17.
Oatley, K. (2009). Communications to self and others: Emotional experience and its skills. Emotion Review, 1, 206-213.  



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Chapters in edited books and non-refereed publications
Oatley, K., & Goodwin, B.C. (1972).  The explanation and investigation of biological rhythms.  In W.P. Colquhoun (Ed.), Biological Rhythms and Human Performance (pp.1-39) London: Academic Press.
Oatley, K. (1973). Simulation and theory of thirst.  In A. Epstein, E. Stellar & H. Kissileff (Eds.) Thirst: New Findings and Concepts (pp.199-221). Washington, D.C.: V.H.Winston.
Oatley, K. (1974).  Circadian rhythms and representations of the environment in motivational systems.  In D. MacFarland (Ed.), Motivational Control Systems Analysis (pp.427-459). London: Academic Press.
Oatley, K. (1977).  Inference, navigation and cognitive maps.  In P.N. Johnson-Laird & P. Wason (Eds.), Thinking: Readings in Cognitive Science (pp.537-547).  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Oatley, K. (1979).  Computational metaphors for perception. In Perception Part 2,  Unit 8 of Block 2 of The Open University Cognitive Psychology Course, D 303 (pp.5-51).  Milton Keynes:  The Open University Press.
Oatley, K. (1980).  Theories of personal learning in groups.  In P.B. Smith (Ed.),  Small Groups and Personal Change (pp.85-105).  London: Methuen.
Oatley, K. (1981).  The self with others: The person and the interpersonal context in the approaches of C.R. Rogers and R.D. Laing.  In F. Fransella (Ed.), Personality: Theory, Measurement and Research (pp.191-207). London: Methuen.
Oatley, K. (1981).  Representing ourselves:  Mental schemata, computational metaphors and the nature of consciousness.  In G. Underwood & R. Stevens (Eds.), Aspects of Consciousness Vol. 2 (pp.85-117). London: Academic Press.
Hodgson, D., & Oatley, K. (1984). Self-help groups for agoraphobics: Their role in coping with anxiety and depression. In F.J. McGuigan, W.E.Syme & J.McD. Wallace (Eds.), Stress and  Tension Control, II (pp.201-212). New York: Plenum.
Oatley, K. (1985).  Cognitive psychology: Its significance for theories of neurological function and of the emotions. In M. Swash & C. Kennard (Eds.),  The Scientific Basis of Clinical Neurology (pp.289-293). London: Churchill Livingstone.
Oatley, K. (1985). Representations of the physical and social world. In D.A. Oakley (Ed.) Mind and brain (pp. 32-58). London: Methuen.
Oatley, K. (1987). Experiments and experience: Usefulness and insight in psychology. In H. Beloff & A.M. Colman (Eds.), Psychology Survey, 6 (pp.1-27). Leicester: British Psychological Society.
Oatley, K. (1988). Life events, social cognition and depression. In S. Fisher & J. Reason (Eds.), Handbook of Life Stress (pp.543-557). Cognition and Health. Chichester: Wiley.
Oatley, K. (1988). Plans and the communicative function of emotions: A cognitive theory. In V. Hamilton, G.H. Bower & N.H. Frijda (Eds.), Cognitive perspectives on emotion and motivation. NATO Advanced Science Institutes, Series D, No 44 (pp.345-364). Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Oatley, K. (1988). On changing one's mind: A possible function of consciousness. In A.J. Marcel & E. Bisiach (Eds.), Consciousness in Contemporary Science (pp.369-389). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Johnson-Laird, P.N., & Oatley, K. (1988). Il significato delle emozioni: una teoria e un' analisi semantica. In V. D'Urso e R.Trentin (a cura di) Psicologia delle emozioni (pp.119-158). Bologna: Il Mulino.
Draper, S.W, Mayes, J.T., MacGregor, A.M., & Oatley, K. (1988). Information flow in a user interface: The effect of experience and context on the recall of MacWrite screens. In D.M. Jones & R. Winder (Eds.), People and computers, 4 (HCI-88), (pp.275-389). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Oatley, K. (1990). Do emotional states produce irrational thinking? In K.J. Gilhooly, M.T.G. Keane, R.H. Logie, & G. Erdos (Eds.) Lines of thinking: Vol 2 (pp.121-131). Chichester: Wiley.
Oatley, K. (1990). Role transitions and the emotional structure of everyday life. In S. Fisher & C.L. Cooper (Eds.),  On the move: The psychological effects of change and transition (pp.67-81). Chichester: Wiley.
Oatley, K. (1991). Distributed cognition. In M.W. Eysenck (Ed.), Dictionary of cognitive psychology (pp.102-107). Oxford: Blackwell.
Oatley, K. (1991). Emotions. In M.W. Eysenck (Ed.), Dictionary of cognitive psychology (pp.129-134). Oxford: Blackwell.
Oatley, K. (1991). Human-computer interaction. In M.W. Eysenck (Ed.) Dictionary of cognitive psychology. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 161-166.
Oatley, K., & Jenkins, J.M. (1992). Human emotions: Function and dysfunction. Annual Review of Psychology, 43, 55-85.
Draper, S.W., & Oatley, K. (1992). Action centred manuals or minimalist instruction: Alternative theories for Carroll’s minimal manuals.  In P. Holt & N. Williams (Eds.), Computers and writing State of the the art (pp.222-243). Oxford: Intellect.
Oatley, K., & Duncan, E. (1992).  Incidents of emotion in daily life. In K.T. Strongman (Ed.), International Review of Studies on Emotion, Vol 2 (pp.249-293). Chichester: Wiley.
Oatley, K. (1992). Integrative action of narrative. In D.J. Stein & J.E. Young (Eds.), Cognitive science and clinical disorders (pp.151-170).  San Diego CA: Academic Press.
Oatley, K. (1993). Those to whom evil is done. In R.S. Wyer & T. Srull (Eds.), Advances in Social Cognition, Vol 6 (pp.159-165). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Oatley, K. (1993). Social construction in emotions.  In M. Lewis & J.M.Haviland (Eds.), Handbook of emotions (pp.341-352). New York: Guilford Press.
Oatley, K., & Larocque, L. (1995). Everyday concepts of emotion following every-other-day errors in joint plans. In J. A. Russell, J-M Fernandez-Dols, A.S.R. Manstead, & J. C. Wellenkamp (Eds.), Everyday conceptions of emotion: An introduction to the psychology, anthropology, and linguistics of emotion. NATO ASI Series, D. Vol. 81. (pp. 145-165). Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Oatley, K., & Johnson-Laird, P.N. (1996). The communicative theory of emotions: empirical tests, mental models, and implications for social interaction.  In L.L. Martin & A. Tesser (Eds), Striving and feeling: Interactions among goals, affect, and self-regulation (pp. 363-393). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Oatley, K., & Nundy, S. (1996). Rethinking the role of emotions in education. In D. Olson & N. Torrance (Eds.) Handbook of Education and human development: New models of learning, teaching and schooling (pp. 257-274). Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
Oatley, K. (1996). Emotions: Communications to the self and others. In R. Harré & W.G. Parrott (Eds). The emotions: Social, cultural, and biological dimensions (pp. 312-316). Newbury Park: Sage.
Jenkins, J.M., & Oatley, K. (1996). Emotional episodes and emotionality through the lifespan. In C. Malatesta-Magai & S. McFadden (Eds.), Handbook of emotion, adult development, and aging (pp. 421-441). San Diego: Academic Press.
Oatley, K. (1996). Emotions, rationality, and informal reasoning. In J.V. Oakhill & A. Garnham (Eds.) Mental models in cognitive science: Essays in honour of Phil Johnson-Laird (pp. 175-196). Hove: Psychology Press.
Oatley, K. (1996). Inference in narrative and science. In D. R. Olson & N. Torrance (Eds.),  Modes of thought: Explorations in culture and cognition (pp. 123-140). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Grazzani-Gavazzi, I., Oatley, K., & Jenkins, J.M. (1997). Emozione nella vita quotidiana: una teoria cognitivo-communicativa e le sue implicazione evolutive. In A. Marchetti (Ed.), Lo svilluppo psicologico: Modelli e concezioni, Vol 5. Conoscenze, affetti, socialità: Verso  conscezioni integrati dello sviluppo (pp. 169-190). Milano: Raffaello Cortina. (English version available: The communicative functions of emotions: A cognitive theory and its implications for developmental psychology.)
Oatley, K. & Gholamain, M. (1997). Emotions and identification: Connections between readers and fiction. In M. Hjort & S. Laver  (Eds.), Emotion and the arts (pp. 263-281).  New York: Oxford University Press.
Vorderer, P., Cupchik, G.C., & Oatley, K. (1997).  Reading and literary landscapes: Experience and action from self-oriented and spectator perspectives. In S. Totosy de Zepetnek & I. Sywenky (Eds.) The sytemic and empirical approach to literature and culture as theory and application. (pp. 559-571).  Siegen: Institute for Empirical Literature and Media Research, LUMIS Publications, Special edition, Vol 8.
Jenkins, J.M. & Oatley, K. (1998). The development of emotion schemas in children:  Processes underlying psychopathology. In W.F. Flack & J.D. Laird (Eds.), Emotions in psychopathology: Theory and research (pp. 45-56). New York: Oxford University Press.
Oatley, K. (1998). Meetings of minds. In S. Janssen & N. van Dijk (Eds.). The empirical study of literature and the media (pp. 58-72). Rotterdam: Barjesteh van Waalwijk van Doorn & Co’s Uitgeverssmaatschappij. (A version of this article also printed as Oatley, 1999, in  Poetics.)
Oatley, K. (1999). Foreword, in T. Dalgleish & M. Power (Eds.). Handbook of Cognition and Emotion, Chichester: Wiley.
Oatley, K. (1999). Emotions. In R. A. Wilson & F.C. Keil (Eds.) The MIT encyclopaedia of the cognitive sciences (pp. 273-275). Cambridge, MA. MIT Press.
Oatley, K. (2000). Social goals and emotion. Two-page report by Paul Redford of invited talk at the 2000 British Psychological Society Annual Conference, The Psychologist, 13, 290-291.
Johnson-Laird, P.N., & Oatley, K. (2000) Cognitive and social construction in emotion. In M. Lewis & J. Haviland (Eds.) Handbook of Emotions, 2nd ed. (pp. 458-475). New York: Guilford.
Oatley, K. (2000). The sentiments and beliefs of distributed cognition. In N.Frijda & A.S.R. Manstead, & S. Bem (Eds.), Emotions and beliefs: How feelings influence thoughts. (pp. 78-107). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Oatley, K.  (2000). Emotion—Theories. In A.E. Kazdin (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of psychology, Washington, D.C. American Psychological Association.
Oatley, K. (2000). Cross-cultural forays. Commentary on Paul Whittle’s Experimental psychology and psychoanalysis: What we can learn from a century of misunderstanding. Neuropsychoanalysis, 2, (2), 122-124.
Oatley, K. (2001). Emotion in cognition. In N.J. Smelser & P. Baltes (Eds.). International Encyclopaedia of the the Social and Behavioral Sciences, pp. 4440-4444. Oxford: Pergamon.
Oatley, K. (2000). Social goals and emotion. Report of keynote talk at the 2000 British Psychological Society Annual Conference, The Psychologist, 13, 290-291.
De Sousa, R &  Oatley, K (2001).  The functions of emotions: A dialogue. Emotion Researcher, 14, No. 3, 6-7.
Oatley, K. (2002).  Emotions and the story worlds of fiction. In M.C. Green, J.J. Strange, &  T.C. Brock (Eds) Narrative impact: Social and cognitive foundations, pp. 39-69.  Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Oatley, K. & Johnson-Laird, P.N. (2002). Emotion and reasoning to consistency: The case of abductive inference. In S. Moore & M. Oaksford (Eds). Emotional cognition: From brain to behaviour, (pp. 157-182). Amsterdam: John Benjamin.
Oatley, K. &  Glouberman, S. (2002).  Emotions and human health. In Social Sciences & Humanities, Psychology, Ed. S. Carta. In Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems. (UNESCO). Oxford: EOLSS Publishers. 12 pp. http://www.eolss.net
Oatley, K. (2003). Emotional expression and experience in the visual and narrative arts. In R. J. Davidson, K. R. Scherer, &  H. H. Goldsmith (Eds.) Handbook of the Affective Sciences (pp. 481-502). New York: Oxford University Press.
Oatley, K. (2003). Trends in emotion research. Emotion Researcher, 17, 1, 9-12.
Oatley, K. (2003). Writingandreading: The future of cognitive poetics. In G.J. Steen & J. Gavins, (Eds.)  Cognitive poetics in practice. (pp. 161-173). London: Routledge.
Oatley, K. (2004). From the emotions of conversation to the passions of fiction. In A.S. R. Manstead, N. Frijda &  A. Fischer  (Eds.) Feelings and emotions: The Amsterdam Symposium. (pp. 98-115). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Oatley, K. (2004). Forum: Il linguaggio degli affetti (a cura di M. Davenia).. In F. Botturi & C. Vigna (eds.) Affetti e Legami. Annuario di Etica, 1, 208-217.
Oatley, K. & Stock, B. (2007) Bibliothèques intérieurs. Idea&s: The arts and science review, University of Toronto, 4. (1), 42-45.
Oatley, K. (2007). Narrative modes of consciousness and selfhood. In P. D. Zelazo, M. Moscovitch & E. Thompson (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Consiousness (pp. 375-402). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Buck, R. & Oatley, K. (2007). Obituary of Robert Plutchik. American Psychologist, 62, 142.
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