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Journal articles
Oatley, K. (1964). Changes in blood volume and osmotic pressure in the production of thirst. Nature, 202, 1341-1342. [pdf]
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. [pdf]
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. [pdf]
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. [pdf]
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. [pdf]
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. [pdf]
Oatley, K. (1999). Meetings of minds: Dialogue, sympathy, and identification, in reading fiction. Poetics, 26, 439-454. [pdf]
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. [pdf]
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. [pdf]
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. [pdf]
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. [pdf]
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. [pdf]
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. [pdf]
Oatley, K. (2007). Slings and arrows: Depression and life events. The Psychologist, 20, 228-230. [pdf]
Oatley, K. (2007). Dante’s love and the creation of a new poetry. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 1, 140-147. [pdf]
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.
Buck, R. & Oatley, K. (2007). Obituary of Robert Plutchik. American Psychologist, 62, 142.
Oatley, K. & Djikic, M. (2008) Writing as thinking. Review of General Psychology, 12, 9-27. [pdf]
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. [pdf]
Oatley, K. (2008). The mind’s flight simulator. The Psychologist, 21, 1030-1032. [pdf]
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. [pdf]
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. [pdf]
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. [pdf]
Oatley, K. (2009). Communications to self and others: Emotional experience and its skills. Emotion Review, 1, 206-213. [pdf]
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. [pdf]
Mar, R. A., Oatley, K., & Peterson, J. B. (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. [pdf]
Oatley, K. (2009). Changing our minds. Greater Good, Winter 2009, Volume V, Issue 3.
Oatley, K. (2010). Two movements in emotions: Communication and reflection. Emotion Review, 2, 29-35. [pdf]
Oatley, K., & Olson, D. R. (2010). Cues to the imagination in memoir, science, and fiction. Review of General Psychology, 12, 56-64. [pdf]
Oatley, K. (2011). Fiction and its study as gateways to the mind. Scientific Study of Literature, 153-164.
Mar, R., Oatley, K., Djikic, M., & Mullin, J. (2011). Emotion and narrative fiction: Interactive influences before, during, and after reading. Cognition and emotion, 25, 818-833.
Oatley, K. (2011). In the minds of others. Scientific American Mind, November/December pp. 62-67.
Oatley, K., & Johnson-Laird, P. N. (2011). Basic emotions in social relationships, reasoning, and psychological illnesses. Emotion Review, 3, 424-433.
Oatley, K., Parrott, W. G., Smith, C. A., & Watts, F. (2011). Cognition and Emotion over twenty-five years. Cognition and Emotion, 25, 1341-1348.
Oatley, K. (2012). The cognitive science of fiction. WIREs Cognitive Science 2012 doi: 10.1002/wcs.1185
Wells-Jopling, R., & Oatley, K. (2012). Metonymy and intimacy. Journal of Literary Theory, 6, 235-252.
Oatley, K. (2012). The cognitive science of fiction. WIREs Cognitive Science 2012 doi: 10.1002/wcs.1185
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. [pdf]
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. #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.M. (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. & Jenkins, J. M. (2021). Art as expression of emotion explored in Anna Karenina. Interdisciplinary Literary Studies.
Chapters in edited books and other 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. [pdf]
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. [pdf]
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 Consciousness (pp. 375-402). New York: Cambridge University Press. [pdf]
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. [pdf]
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., 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. 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). 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. Kingston, ON: Queens McGill Press.
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.
Djikic, M., & Oatley, K. (2016). The inner choice of hope. In L. Bormans (Ed.), The World Book of Hope (pp. xx-xx). 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 creaativity 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, J. Baer, and V. Glaveanu (Eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity Across Different Domains, (pp. 63-79).
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 J. Billington (Ed.), Reading and mental health (pp. 331-343). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
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. (in press). Films and Meaning, in Louis Tay and James Pawelski (eds.) Handbook of Positive Psychology of the Arts and Humanities: Theory and Research
Oatley, K. (in press). Jane Austen and the emotion of love. In Patrick Hogan, Lalita Hogan & Bradley Irish (Eds.) The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion. Routledge.
Oatley, K. (in press). Only project: A psychological principle explored in a novel. In Peter Vorderer & Christoff Klimmt (Eds). The Oxford Handbook of Entertainment Theory. Oxford University Press.
Kennedy, A. & Oatley, K (in press). Understandings of emotion in the first half of the Twentieth Century. In Scarantino, A. (Ed.) The Routledge handbook of emotion theory. New York: Routledge.