Articles
Journal articles
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.
Oatley, K. (1991). Kenneth Craik. The Psychologist, 4, 113.
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. Reprinted in New English Review
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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(4), 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. (2001). Emotional attachment. The Psychologist, 14, p. 154.
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. (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.
Tang, T. N., & Oatley, K. (2009). Belief in common fate and psychological well-being among Chinese immigrant women. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 12, 274-284.
Mar, R. A., Oatley, K., & Peterson, J. (2009). Exploring the link between reading fiction and empathy: Ruling out individual differences and examining outcomes. Communications: The European Journal of Communication, 34, 407-428.
Oatley, K. (2010). Two movements in emotions: Communication and reflection. Emotion Review, 2, 29-35.
Oatley, K., & Olson, D. R. (2010). Cues to the imagination in memoir, science, and fiction. Review of General Psychology, 12, 56-64.
Oatley, K. (2011). The reader and the space-in-between. Style, 45, 330-332.
Oatley, K. (2011). Fiction and its study as gateways to the mind. Scientific Study of Literature, 153-164.
Mar, R. A., Oatley, K., Djikic, M., & Mullin, J. (2011). Emotion and narrative fiction: Interactive influences before, during, and after reading. Cognition and emotion, 25, 818-833.
Wells-Jopling, R & Oatley, K. (2012). Metonymy and intimacy. Journal of Literary Theory, 6, 235-251.
Oatley, K. (2012). The cognitive science of fiction. WIREs Cognitive Science 2012 doi: 10.1002/wcs.1185
Djikic, M., Oatley, K., & Peterson, J. (2012). Serene arts: The effect of personal unsettledness and of paintings' narrative structure on personality. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 30, 183-193.
Djikic, M., Oatley, K., & Carland, M. (2012). Genre or artistic merit: The effect of literature on personality. Scientific Study of Literature, 2, 25.36.
Djikic, M., Oatley, K., & Moldoveanu, M. (2013). Reading other minds: Effects of literature on empathy. Scientific Study of Literature, 3, 28-47.
Djikic, M., Oatley, K., & Moldoveanu, M. (2013). Opening the closed mind: The effect of exposure to literature on the need for closure. Creativity Research Journal, 25, 149-154.
Oatley, K. (2013). Worlds of the possible: Abstraction, imagination, consciousness. Pragmatics and Cognition, 21, 448-468.
Olson, D. R., & Oatley, K. (2014). The quotation theory of writing. Written Communication, 31, 4-26.
Maslej, M., Rain, M., Fong, K., Oatley, K., & Mar, R. A. (2014). The hierarchical personality structure of aspiring creative writers. Creativity Research Journal, 26, 192-202.
Oatley, K. & Johnson-Laird, P.N. (2014). Cognitive approaches to emotions. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 18, 134-140.
Djikic, M., & Oatley, K. (2014). The art in fiction: From indirect communication to self-development. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, 8, 498-505.
Oatley, K., Djikic, M. & Mar, R.A. (2016) The inwardness of James Joyce’s story “The Dead.” Readings: A Journal for Scholars and Readers, 2. Issue 1.
Oatley, K. (2016). Imagination, inference, intimacy: The psychology of Pride and prejudice. Review of General Psychology, 20, 236-244.
Oatley, K. (2016). Fiction: Simulation of social worlds. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20, 618-628.
Maslej, M., Oatley, K., & Mar, R. A. (2017). Creating fictional characters: The role of experience, personality, and social processes. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, 11, 487-499.
Oatley, K. (2017). Art as emotional exploration. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, 37-38.
Oatley, K., & Djikic, M. (2018). Psychology of narrative art. Review of General Psychology, 22, 161-168.
Oatley, K., Dunbar, R. I. M., & Budelmann, F. (2018). Imagining possible worlds. Review of General Psychology, 22, 121-124.
Oatley, K. (2019). Human choices. Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, 3, 73-76.
Oatley, K. (2019). The human unconscious in evolution. Psychological Inquiry, 30, 76-78.
Oatley, K. (2020). Psychology and Narrative. Academia Letters, Article 110. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL110.
Oatley, K. & Jenkins, J. M. (2021). Art as expression of emotion explored in Anna Karenina. Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, 23, 190-203.
Oatley, K. (2021). Books as friends. The Psychologist, November, 64-67.
Oatley, K. (2021). Narrative in mind. Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, 5(2), 57-60.
Aslam, H., Oatley, K. & Djikic, M. (2021, online 15 October). Secular pilgrimage to places associated with writers, musicians, and visual artists. Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, DOI: 10.1080/14766825.2021.1987445
Johnson-Laird, P.N. & Oatley, K (2021, online October). Emotions, simulation, and abstract art. Art and Perception, DOI: 10.1163/22134913-bja10029
Johnson-Laird, P.N. & Oatley, K. (2022). How poetry evokes emotions. Acta Psychologica, 224,
Oatley, K. (2022). Exploration and arrangement in physical and social worlds. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, p.40-41, Article 292; DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X21002119
Keltner, D. & Oatley, K. (2022). Social functions of emotions in life and imaginative culture. Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring. doi 10.26613/esic/6.1.263
Fu, G., Zhou, X, Wu, S. J., Nikoo, H., Panesar, D., Zheng, P., Oatley, K., & Lee, K. (2022). Discrete emotions discovered by contactless measurement of facial blood flows. Cognition and Emotion, 17 September doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2022.2124960
Oatley, K. (2023). Roles that contain and restrain: Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day, Klara and the Sun, and Living. Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 65, 4. 412-421. doi: 10.7560/TSLL 65406
Oatley, K. & Djikic, M. (2024). Fixation: A psychological principle in Dante’s Vita Nuova. Iris Online Journal of Arts and Social Sciences, March, doi: 10.33552/IOJASS.2024.02.000530
Oatley, K. (2024). Enabling empathy and interpersonal understanding: Aesthetics and effects of literary fiction. Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 66 (4), 451-467.
Oatley, K. (2024). Artificial intelligence: Threat or promise? International Journal on Neuropsychology and Behavioural Sciences, 5 (3)
Oatley, K. & Wu S-J. (2024) Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 47, e186, doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X24000815
Cambria, E., Mao, R., Bianchi, N., Hussain, A., Oatley, K., Hinton, G. (2026 in press). Artificial intelligence as the fourth decentering revolution: From cosmic, biological, and psychological displacement to cognitive decentering. Cognitive Computation, 18
Chapters in edited books, etcetera
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.), Blackwell dictionary of cognitive psychology (pp.102-107). Oxford: Blackwell.
Oatley, K. (1991). Emotions. In M.W. Eysenck (Ed.), Blackwell dictionary of cognitive psychology (pp.129-134). Oxford: Blackwell.
Oatley, K. (1991). Human-computer interaction. In M.W. Eysenck (Ed.) Blackwell 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 systemic 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 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. Ideas: 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 Consciousness (pp. 375-402). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Buck, R. & Oatley, K. (2007). Obituary of Robert Plutchik. American Psychologist, 62, 142.
Johnson-Laird, P.N. & Oatley, K. (2008). Emotions, music, and literature. In M. Lewis, J. Haviland-Jones, and L. Feldman Barrett (Eds.) Handbook of emotions, third edition. (pp. 102-113). New York: Guilford.
Mar, R.A., Djikic, M. & Oatley, K. (2008). Effects of reading on knowledge, social abilities, and selfhood. In S. Zyngier, M. Bortolussi, A. Chesnokova, & J. Auracher (Eds.). Directions in empirical studies in literature: In honor of Willie van Peer. (pp. 127-137). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Oatley, K. & Djikic, M. (2008). Coming closer to emotions by way of Kieslowski's film Blue. In Agata Blachnio & Aneta Przepiórka (Eds.) (2008). Blizej Emocji II (Closer to emotions II) (pp. 155-163). Lublin: Wydawnictwo, Katolicki Uniwersystet Lubelski.
Oatley, K. (2009). “Literature and emotion” and “Sentiment” in Sander, D. & Scherer, K.R (Eds.) The Oxford Companion to the emotion and the affective sciences. (pp. 242-243 & 360). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Oatley, K. (2010). Objektivität und Subjektivität in der Literatur. Von der Buchseite in den Kopf des Lesers: der Weg von Charakteren und Gefühlen. (translated into German by Elisabeth Renk). In Wider die falshen Eindeutigkeiten und den Verlust des Lesens (E. Renk, Ed.), pp. 105-123. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann.
Oatley, K. (2011). Theory of mind and theory of minds in literature. In P. Leverage, H. Mancing, R. Schweickert & J. M. William (Eds.), Theory of mind and literature (pp. 13-26). West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press.
Oatley, K. (2011). In the minds of others. Scientific American Mind, 22(6), 62-67.
Oatley, K., Mar, R. A., & Djikic, M. (2012). The psychology of fiction: Present and future. In I. Jaen & J. Simon (Eds.), Cognitive literary studies: Current themes and new directions. (pp. 235-249). Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
Oatley, K. (2012). Emotions in the individual mind, in relationships, and in reading fiction. In M. Eysenck, M. Fajkowska & T. Maruszewski (Eds.), Personality, cognition and emotion (pp. 107-121). Clinton Corners, NY: Eliot Werner Publications.
Oatley, K. (2013). Love is love. In L. Bormans (Ed.), The World book of love (pp. 104-105). Tielt: Lannoo.
Oatley, K. (2013). How cues on the screen prompt emotions in the mind. In A. P. Shimamura (Ed.), Psychocinematics: Exploring cognition at the movies (pp. 269-284). New York: Oxford University Press.
Oatley, K. (2013). Thinking deeply in reading and writing. In P. Socken (Ed.), Literature in the digital age (pp. 175-191). Kingston, ON: Queens McGill Press.
Djikic, M., & Oatley, K. (2014). On the fragility of the artist: Art's precarious triad. In J. C. Kaufman (Ed.), Creativity and mental illness. (pp. 281-294). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Oatley, K. (2013). Emotion. Oxford Bibliographies in Psychology.
Johnson-Laird, P.N. & Oatley, K. (2015). Emotions in music, literature and film. In L. Feldman Barrett, M. Lewis & J. Haviland-Jones (Eds.). Handbook of Emotions, Fourth Edition (pp. 82-97). New York: Guilford.
Djikic, M., & Oatley, K. (2016). The inner choice of hope. In L. Bormans (Ed.), The World Book of Hope (pp. 44-47). Tielt: Lannoo.
Oatley, K. (2016). On the sharing of mind. In U. Hess & A. Fischer (Eds.), Emotional mimicry in social context (pp. 7-26). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Djikic, M., & Oatley, K. (2016). Creativity and its discontents: The Weary Voyager model of creativity in relation to the self. In M. Karwolski & J. C. Kaufman (Eds.), Creativity and the self. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Oatley, K. (2017). On truth and fiction. In M. Burke & E. T. Troscianko (Eds.), Cognitive literary science: Dialogues between literature and cognition (pp. 259-278). New York: Oxford University Press.
Oatley, K. & Djikic, M. (2017) The creativity of literary writing. In J. Kaufman, V. Gläveanu & J. Baer (Eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity Across Different Domains, (pp. 63-79). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Oatley, K., & Jenkins, J. M. (2018). Anger: An emotion of intent and of desire for change in relationships. In M. H. Jacobsen (Ed.), Emotions, everyday life, and sociology. Abingdon, UK: Taylor and Francis.
Oatley, K. (2019). Emotion. Oxford Bibliographies in Psychology. Oxford University Press.
Corcoran, R. & Oatley, K. (2019). Reading minds: Fiction and its relation to the mental worlds of self and others. In Josie Billington (Ed.), Reading and mental health (pp. 331-343). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Oatley, K. (2020) Psychology and narrative. Academia Letters, December, Article 110, https://doi.org/10.20935/AL110.
Oatley, K. (2021). How social simulation makes characters real. In K. Shackleford (Ed.), Real Characters: The psychology of parasocial relationships with media characters (pp. 45-66). Santa Barbara, CA: Fielding University Press.
Oatley, K. (2021). Imaginative creativity in the writing and reading of stories. In Sandra W. Russ, Jessica D. Hoffman & James C. Kaufman (Eds.) The Cambridge handbook of lifetime development of creativity (pp. 351-367). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Oatley, K. (2021). Only project: A psychological principle explored in a novel. In Peter Vorderer & Christoff Klimmt (Eds.) The Oxford handbook of entertainment theory (pp. 305-320). Oxford University Press.
Black, J. E., Barnes, J.L., Oatley, K., Tamir, D.I., Dodell-Feder, D., Richter, T. & Mar, R.A. (2021). Stories and their role in social cognition. In Donald Kuiken & Arthur M. Jacobs (Eds). Handbook of literary studies (pp. 229-250). Berlin: De Gruyter.
Oatley, K. (2022). Film and meaning, in Louis Tay and James Pawelski (Eds.) Oxford handbook of positive psychology of the arts and humanities: Theory and research (pp. 350-361). New York: Oxford University Press.
Oatley, K. (2022). Character and emotion in fiction. In Patrick Hogan, Lalita Hogan & Bradley Irish (Eds.) The Routledge companion to literature and emotion. (pp. 272-282). New York: Routledge.
Oatley, K. (2022). Jane Austen and the emotion of love. In Patrick Hogan, Lalita Hogan & Bradley Irish (Eds.) The Routledge companion to literature and emotion. (pp. 433-444). New York: Routledge.
Kennedy, A. & Oatley, K (2025). Understandings of emotion in the first half of the Twentieth Century. Chapter 10 in A. Scarantino (Ed.), The Routledge handbook of emotion theory, pp. 188-212. New York: Routledge.
Oatley, K. (2026). Expertise and creativity in literary writing. In A. Mark Williams et al., eds. The Cambridge handbook of expertise and expert performance, 3rd Edition,
Oatley, K. & Wu, S. J. (forthcoming). Evolutionary and cultural aspects of emotion-based stories in fictional literature and films The Oxford handbook of emotion and culture. Ed. M. Yik.
Oatley, K. (forthcoming). Music and emotion: Theory, evidence, and comparison with literary and visual art, in Music Research - Current Topics and Interdisciplinary Approaches, edited by Christiane Neuhaus.
Shoemaker, L. M., Oatley, K. Mar R. A. (forthcoming). Learning about others, and relationships with others, from the narrative arts. Ed Frascoli, P, The Arts and the Drive for Knowledge. Cambridge University Press.