Abstract
Real people sometimes appear in fiction, for example, Napoleon in War and Peace. Readers may also believe that a person who never actually appears in a novel could potentially appear there. In two experiments, we find evidence that readers think that a real person could appear in specific novels and physically interact with a character. This effect is magnified when the person and character share spatial and temporal elements of their setting.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2016 |
| Editors | Anna Papafragou, Daniel Grodner, Daniel Mirman, John C. Trueswell |
| Publisher | The Cognitive Science Society |
| Pages | 2111-2116 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780991196739 |
| State | Published - 2016 |
| Event | 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Recognizing and Representing Events, CogSci 2016 - Philadelphia, United States Duration: Aug 10 2016 → Aug 13 2016 |
Publication series
| Name | Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2016 |
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Conference
| Conference | 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Recognizing and Representing Events, CogSci 2016 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Philadelphia |
| Period | 8/10/16 → 8/13/16 |
Funding
We thank three anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on this paper. Work on the paper is due in part to the US Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, Multidisciplinary Program in Education Sciences, Grant Award # R305B140042.
Keywords
- fictional worlds
- novels
- world knowledge
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Science Applications
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Cognitive Neuroscience