Publications: 1995/1996

Books (authored, edited)

Britton, B. K., & Graesser, A. C. (Eds.). (1996). Models of understanding text. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Link to Book

Refereed Journal Publications (does not include book chapters)

Dijkstra, K., Zwaan, R. A., Graesser, A. C., & Magliano, J. P. (1995). Character and reader emotions in literary texts. Poetics, 23(1-2), 139-157. Link to PDF

Golding, J. M., Graesser, A. C., & Hauselt, J. (1996). The process of answering direction-giving questions when someone is lost on a university campus: The role of pragmatics. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 10(1), 23-39. Link to PDF

Graesser, A. C. (1995). Imagine law without simple rules. Contemporary Psychology, 40(2), 143-144.

Graesser, A. C., Baggett, W. B., & Williams, K. (1996). Question-driven explanatory reasoning. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 10, S17-S31. Link to PDF

Graesser, A. C., Gholson, B., & Houston, D. (1996). Reasoning processes. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 10, S1-S146.

Graesser, A. C., Person, N. K., & Magliano, J. P. (1995). Collaborative dialogue patterns in naturalistic one-to-one tutoring. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 9(6), 495-522.

Linz, D., Donnerstein, E., Shafer, B. J., Land, K. C., McCall, P. L., & Graesser, A. C. (1995). Discrepancies between the legal code and community standards for sex and violence: An empirical challenge to traditional assumptions in obscenity law. Law & Society Review, 29, 127-168. Link to PDF

Person, N. K., Kreuz, R. J., Zwaan, R. A., & Graesser, A. C. (1995). Pragmatics and pedagogy: Conversational rules and politeness strategies may inhibit effective tutoring. Cognition and Instruction, 13(2), 161-188. Link to PDF

Zwaan, R. A., Langston, M. C., & Graesser, A. C. (1995). The construction of situation models in narrative comprehension: An event-indexing model. Psychological Science, 6(5), 292-297. Link to PDF

Zwaan, R. A., Magliano, J. P., & Graesser, A. C. (1995). Dimensions of situation model construction in narrative comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21(2), 386-397. Link to PDF

Book Chapters

Graesser, A. C., Bertus, E. L., & Magliano, J. P. (1995). Inference generation during the comprehension of narrative text. In R. Lorch & E. O'Brien (Eds.), Sources of coherence in reading (pp. 295-320). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Graesser, A. C., Bommareddy, S., Swamer, S. S., & Golding, J. M. (1996). Integrating questionnaire design with a cognitive computational model of human question answering. In N. Schwarz & S. Sudman (Eds.), Answering questions: Methodology for determining cognitive and communicative processes in survey research (pp. 143-175). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Graesser, A. C., & Britton, B. K. (1996). Five metaphors for text understanding. In B. K. Britton, & A. C. Graesser (Eds.), Models of understanding text (pp. 341-352). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Link to Book

Graesser, A. C., Golding, J. M., & Long, D. L. (1996). Narrative representation and comprehension. Handbook of reading research. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Link to Book

Graesser, A. C. & Ottati, V. (1996). Why stories? Some evidence, questions, and challenges. In R. S. Wyer (Ed.), Knowledge and memory: The real story (pp. 121-132). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Link to Book

Graesser, A. C., Person, N. K., & Johnston, G. S. (1996). Three obstacles in empirical research on aesthetic and literary comprehension. In R. J. Kreuz & M. S. MacNealy (Eds.), Empirical approaches to literature and aesthetics (pp. 3-22). Westport, CT: Ablex.

Graesser, A. C., Swamer, S. S., Baggett, W. B., & Sell, M. A. (1996). New models of deep comprehension. In B. K. Britton & A. C. Graesser (Eds.), Models of understanding text (pp. 1-32). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Link to Book

Graesser, A. C., & Wilkiewicz, J. J. (1995). Preface. Book written by Joachim Hasebrook, Electronic media for learning. Heidelberg, Germany: SPEKTRUM.

Graesser, A. C., & Zwaan, R. A. (1995). Inference generation and the construction of situation models. In C. A. Weaver, S. Mannes, & C. R. Fletcher (Eds.), Discourse comprehension: Essays in honor of Walter Kintsch (pp. 117-139). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Link to Book

Magliano, J. P., Baggett, W. B., & Graesser, A. C. (1996). A taxonomy of inference categories that may be generated during the comprehension of literary texts. In R. J. Kreuz, & M. S. MacNealy (Eds.), Empirical approaches to literature and aesthetics (pp. 201-220). Westport, CT: Ablex.

Refereed Conference Publications and Abstracts

Baggett, W. B., & Graesser, A. C. (1995). Question answering in the context of illustrated expository text. Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 334-339). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Link to Book

Graesser, A. C., Kassler, M. A., Dijkstra, K., Zwaan, R. A., McLain Allen, B. (1995). Comprehending novel mental models of time in Einstein's Dreams. In G. Rusch (Ed.), Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (pp. 348-353). Siegen, Germany: Siegen University Press.

Franklin, S., & Graesser, A. C. (1996). Is it an agent or just a program? A taxonomy for autonomous agents. Proceedings of the Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages Workshop. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. Link to PDF

Franklin, S. P., Graesser, A. C., Olde, B. A., Song, H., & Negatu, A. (1996). Virtual Mattie: An intelligent clerical agent. AAAI Symposium on Embodied Cognition and Action. Link to PDF

Tidwell, P. M., Graesser, A. C., & Hall, L. (1996). In the Proceedings of the Society for Consumer Psychology.