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Vela·Bibliography·source: people-analyst/vela/docs/research/text-aesthetic-bibliography.bib
% Text-Aesthetic, Erotic Reading, and Cross-Modal Transfer — Bibliography
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% A. Text-aesthetic response as a distinct construct
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@article{schindler_2017_measuring,
author = {Schindler, Ines and Hosoya, Georg and Menninghaus, Winfried and Beermann, Ursula and Wagner, Valentin and Eid, Michael and Scherer, Klaus R.},
title = {Measuring Aesthetic Emotions: A Review of the Literature and a New Assessment Tool},
journal = {PLOS ONE},
volume = {12},
number = {6},
pages = {e0178899},
year = {2017},
doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0178899}
}
@article{wassiliwizky_2017_emotional,
author = {Wassiliwizky, Eugen and Koelsch, Stefan and Wagner, Valentin and Jacobsen, Thomas and Menninghaus, Winfried},
title = {The Emotional Power of Poetry: Neural Circuitry, Psychophysiology and Compositional Principles},
journal = {Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience},
volume = {12},
number = {8},
pages = {1229--1240},
year = {2017},
doi = {10.1093/scan/nsx069}
}
@article{menninghaus_2015_towards,
author = {Menninghaus, Winfried and Wagner, Valentin and Hanich, Julian and Wassiliwizky, Eugen and Kuehnast, Milena and Jacobsen, Thomas},
title = {Towards a Psychological Construct of Being Moved},
journal = {PLOS ONE},
volume = {10},
number = {6},
pages = {e0128451},
year = {2015},
doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0128451}
}
@article{menninghaus_2017_poetic,
author = {Menninghaus, Winfried and Wagner, Valentin and Wassiliwizky, Eugen and Jacobsen, Thomas and Knoop, Christine A.},
title = {Poetic Speech Melody, Form, and Arousal: How Poetic Meter, Rhyme, and Figures of Speech Evoke Bodily Reactions in Listeners},
journal = {PLOS ONE},
volume = {12},
number = {10},
pages = {e0186227},
year = {2017},
doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0186227}
}
@article{menninghaus_2017_distancing,
author = {Menninghaus, Winfried and Wagner, Valentin and Hanich, Julian and Wassiliwizky, Eugen and Jacobsen, Thomas and Koelsch, Stefan},
title = {The Distancing-Embracing Model of the Enjoyment of Negative Emotions in Art Reception},
journal = {Behavioral and Brain Sciences},
volume = {40},
pages = {e347},
year = {2017},
doi = {10.1017/S0140525X17000309}
}
@article{johnsonlaird_2022_how,
author = {Johnson-Laird, Philip N. and Mancini, Francesco and Gangemi, Amelia},
title = {How Poetry Evokes Emotions},
journal = {Acta Psychologica},
year = {2022},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000169182200021X}
}
@article{osullivan_2015_neural,
author = {O'Sullivan, Noreen and Davis, Philip and Billington, Josie and others},
title = {The Neural Basis of Literary Awareness, and Its Benefits to Cognition},
journal = {Cortex},
year = {2015},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26409018/}
}
% Cross-reference: Menninghaus et al. 2019 "What are aesthetic emotions?"
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% B. Narrative, imagery, and the reading experience
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@article{green_2000_role,
author = {Green, Melanie C. and Brock, Timothy C.},
title = {The Role of Transportation in the Persuasiveness of Public Narratives},
journal = {Journal of Personality and Social Psychology},
volume = {79},
number = {5},
pages = {701--721},
year = {2000},
doi = {10.1037/0022-3514.79.5.701}
}
@book{gerrig_1993_experiencing,
author = {Gerrig, Richard J.},
title = {Experiencing Narrative Worlds: On the Psychological Activities of Reading},
year = {1993},
publisher = {Yale University Press},
address = {New Haven},
url = {https://search.worldcat.org/title/experiencing-narrative-worlds/oclc/26431592}
}
@article{kuijpers_2014_exploring,
author = {Kuijpers, Moniek M. and Hakemulder, Frank and Tan, Ed S. and Doicaru, Miruna M.},
title = {Exploring Absorbing Reading Experiences: Developing and Validating a Self-Report Scale to Measure Story World Absorption},
journal = {Scientific Study of Literature},
volume = {4},
number = {1},
pages = {89--122},
year = {2014},
doi = {10.1075/ssol.4.1.06kui}
}
@article{mar_2008_function,
author = {Mar, Raymond A. and Oatley, Keith},
title = {The Function of Fiction is the Abstraction and Simulation of Social Experience},
journal = {Perspectives on Psychological Science},
volume = {3},
number = {3},
pages = {173--192},
year = {2008},
doi = {10.1111/j.1745-6924.2008.00073.x}
}
@article{kidd_2013_reading,
author = {Kidd, David Comer and Castano, Emanuele},
title = {Reading Literary Fiction Improves Theory of Mind},
journal = {Science},
volume = {342},
number = {6156},
pages = {377--380},
year = {2013},
doi = {10.1126/science.1239918}
}
@article{panero_2016_does,
author = {Panero, Maria Eugenia and Weisberg, Deena Skolnick and Black, Jessica and Goldstein, Thalia R. and Barnes, Jennifer L. and Brownell, Hiram and Winner, Ellen},
title = {Does Reading a Single Passage of Literary Fiction Really Improve Theory of Mind? An Attempt at Replication},
journal = {Journal of Personality and Social Psychology},
volume = {111},
number = {5},
pages = {e46--e54},
year = {2016},
doi = {10.1037/pspa0000064}
}
@article{samur_2018_does,
author = {Samur, Dalya and Tops, Mattie and Koole, Sander L.},
title = {Does a Single Session of Reading Literary Fiction Prime Enhanced Mentalising Performance?},
journal = {Cognition and Emotion},
volume = {32},
number = {1},
pages = {130--144},
year = {2018},
doi = {10.1080/02699931.2017.1279591}
}
@article{vankuijk_2018_effect,
author = {van Kuijk, Ivo and Verkoeijen, Peter P. J. L. and Dijkstra, Katinka and Zwaan, Rolf A.},
title = {The Effect of Reading a Short Passage of Literary Fiction on Theory of Mind: A Replication of {Kidd} and {Castano} (2013)},
journal = {Collabra: Psychology},
volume = {4},
number = {1},
pages = {7},
year = {2018},
doi = {10.1525/collabra.117}
}
@article{dodellfeder_2018_fiction,
author = {Dodell-Feder, David and Tamir, Diana I.},
title = {Fiction Reading Has a Small Positive Impact on Social Cognition: A Meta-Analysis},
journal = {Journal of Experimental Psychology: General},
volume = {147},
number = {11},
pages = {1713--1727},
year = {2018},
doi = {10.1037/xge0000395}
}
@article{miall_1994_foregrounding,
author = {Miall, David S. and Kuiken, Don},
title = {Foregrounding, Defamiliarization, and Affect: Response to Literary Stories},
journal = {Poetics},
volume = {22},
number = {5},
pages = {389--407},
year = {1994},
doi = {10.1016/0304-422X(94)00009-V}
}
@article{obermeier_2016_aesthetic,
author = {Obermeier, Christian and Kotz, Sonja A. and Jessen, Sarah and Raettig, Tim and von Koppenfels, Martin and Menninghaus, Winfried},
title = {Aesthetic Appreciation of Poetry Correlates with Ease of Processing in Event-Related Potentials},
journal = {Cognitive, Affective, \& Behavioral Neuroscience},
volume = {16},
number = {2},
pages = {362--373},
year = {2016},
doi = {10.3758/s13415-015-0396-x}
}
@article{mar_2006_bookworms,
author = {Mar, Raymond A. and Oatley, Keith and Hirsh, Jacob and de la Paz, Jennifer and Peterson, Jordan B.},
title = {Bookworms Versus Nerds: Exposure to Fiction Versus Nonfiction, Divergent Associations with Social Ability, and the Simulation of Fictional Social Worlds},
journal = {Journal of Research in Personality},
volume = {40},
number = {5},
pages = {694--712},
year = {2006},
doi = {10.1016/j.jrp.2005.08.002}
}
@book{hakemulder_2000_moral,
author = {Hakemulder, Frank},
title = {The Moral Laboratory: Experiments Examining the Effects of Reading Literature on Social Perception and Moral Self-Concept},
year = {2000},
publisher = {John Benjamins},
address = {Amsterdam},
url = {https://search.worldcat.org/title/moral-laboratory/oclc/43561084}
}
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% C. Sexual arousal to text — the sexology line
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@article{janssen_2002_sexual,
author = {Janssen, Erick and Vorst, Harrie and Finn, Peter and Bancroft, John},
title = {The Sexual Inhibition ({SIS}) and Sexual Excitation ({SES}) Scales: {I}. Measuring Sexual Inhibition and Excitation Proneness in Men},
journal = {Journal of Sex Research},
volume = {39},
number = {2},
pages = {114--126},
year = {2002},
doi = {10.1080/00224490209552130}
}
@article{graham_2006_turning,
author = {Graham, Cynthia A. and Sanders, Stephanie A. and Milhausen, Robin R. and McBride, Kimberly R.},
title = {Turning On and Turning Off: A Focus Group Study of the Factors that Affect Women's Sexual Arousal},
journal = {Archives of Sexual Behavior},
volume = {35},
number = {2},
pages = {155--168},
year = {2006},
doi = {10.1007/s10508-005-9009-z}
}
@article{milhausen_2010_validation,
author = {Milhausen, Robin R. and Graham, Cynthia A. and Sanders, Stephanie A. and Yarber, William L. and Maitland, Scott B.},
title = {Validation of the Sexual Excitation/Sexual Inhibition Inventory for Women and Men ({SESII-W/M})},
journal = {Archives of Sexual Behavior},
volume = {39},
number = {5},
pages = {1043--1053},
year = {2010},
doi = {10.1007/s10508-009-9554-y}
}
@article{chivers_2010_agreement,
author = {Chivers, Meredith L. and Seto, Michael C. and Lalumi{\`e}re, Martin L. and Laan, Ellen and Grimbos, Teresa},
title = {Agreement of Self-Reported and Genital Measures of Sexual Arousal in Men and Women: A Meta-Analysis},
journal = {Archives of Sexual Behavior},
volume = {39},
number = {1},
pages = {5--56},
year = {2010},
doi = {10.1007/s10508-009-9556-9}
}
@article{heiman_1977_psychophysiological,
author = {Heiman, Julia R.},
title = {A Psychophysiological Exploration of Sexual Arousal Patterns in Females and Males},
journal = {Psychophysiology},
volume = {14},
number = {3},
pages = {266--274},
year = {1977},
doi = {10.1111/j.1469-8986.1977.tb01173.x}
}
@article{schmidt_1973_responses,
author = {Schmidt, Gunter and Sigusch, Volkmar and Sch{\"a}fer, Sigrid},
title = {Responses to Reading Erotic Stories: Male-Female Differences},
journal = {Archives of Sexual Behavior},
volume = {2},
number = {3},
pages = {181--199},
year = {1973},
doi = {10.1007/BF01541755}
}
@article{laan_1994_womens,
author = {Laan, Ellen and Everaerd, Walter and van Bellen, Geert and Hanewald, Gerrit},
title = {Women's Sexual and Emotional Responses to Male- and Female-Produced Erotica},
journal = {Archives of Sexual Behavior},
volume = {23},
number = {2},
pages = {153--169},
year = {1994},
doi = {10.1007/BF01541496}
}
@article{laan_1995_determinants,
author = {Laan, Ellen and Everaerd, Walter},
title = {Determinants of Subjective Experience of Sexual Arousal in Women: Feedback from Genital Arousal and Erotic Stimulus Content},
journal = {Psychophysiology},
volume = {32},
number = {5},
pages = {444--451},
year = {1995},
doi = {10.1111/j.1469-8986.1995.tb02095.x}
}
@article{scott_2011_no,
author = {Scott, Cherilynn L. and Cortez, Arlen M.},
title = {No Longer His and Hers, But Ours: Examining Sexual Arousal in Response to Erotic Stories Designed for Both Sexes},
journal = {Journal of Sex \& Marital Therapy},
volume = {37},
number = {4},
pages = {286--300},
year = {2011},
doi = {10.1080/0092623X.2011.560529}
}
% Cross-reference: Chivers et al. 2004 (category-specificity) is in
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% D. Romance and erotica reading
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@book{radway_1984_reading,
author = {Radway, Janice A.},
title = {Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature},
year = {1984},
publisher = {University of North Carolina Press},
address = {Chapel Hill},
url = {https://uncpress.org/9780807843499/reading-the-romance/}
}
@article{salmon_2012_pop,
author = {Salmon, Catherine},
title = {The Pop Culture of Sex: An Evolutionary Window on the Worlds of Pornography and Romance},
journal = {Review of General Psychology},
volume = {16},
number = {2},
pages = {152--160},
year = {2012},
doi = {10.1037/a0027910}
}
@article{kraxenberger_2021_who,
author = {Kraxenberger, Maria and Knoop, Christine A. and Menninghaus, Winfried},
title = {Who Reads Contemporary Erotic Novels and Why?},
journal = {Humanities and Social Sciences Communications},
volume = {8},
number = {96},
year = {2021},
doi = {10.1057/s41599-021-00764-3}
}
@book{ogas_2011_billion,
author = {Ogas, Ogi and Gaddam, Sai},
title = {A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships},
year = {2011},
publisher = {Dutton},
address = {New York},
url = {https://search.worldcat.org/title/billion-wicked-thoughts/oclc/656015200}
}
@article{liebers_2017_friends,
author = {Liebers, Nicole and Schramm, Holger},
title = {Friends in Books: The Influence of Character Attributes and the Reading Experience on Parasocial Relationships and Romances with Book Characters},
journal = {Poetics},
volume = {65},
pages = {12--23},
year = {2017},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304422X16302455}
}
@article{rain_2021_adult,
author = {Rain, Marina and Mar, Raymond A.},
title = {Adult Attachment and Engagement with Fictional Characters},
journal = {Journal of Social and Personal Relationships},
volume = {38},
number = {9},
pages = {2589--2611},
year = {2021},
doi = {10.1177/02654075211018513}
}
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% E. Cross-modal aesthetic response
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@article{pelowski_2017_move,
author = {Pelowski, Matthew and Markey, Patrick S. and Forster, Michael and Gerger, Gernot and Leder, Helmut},
title = {Move Me, Astonish Me{\ldots} Delight My Eyes and Brain: The Vienna Integrated Model of Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processes in Art Perception ({VIMAP}) and Corresponding Affective, Evaluative, and Neurophysiological Correlates},
journal = {Physics of Life Reviews},
volume = {21},
pages = {80--125},
year = {2017},
doi = {10.1016/j.plrev.2017.02.003}
}
% Cross-reference: Vessel et al. 2012 DMN activation is in
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% Addendum entries — late OpenAI rework additions (2026-04-24)
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@article{brown_2011_naturalizing,
author = {Brown, Steven and Gao, Xiaoqing and Tisdelle, Loren and Eickhoff, Simon B. and Liotti, Mario},
title = {Naturalizing Aesthetics: Brain Areas for Aesthetic Appraisal Across Sensory Modalities},
journal = {NeuroImage},
volume = {58},
number = {1},
pages = {250--258},
year = {2011},
doi = {10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.06.012}
}
@article{vessel_2019_default,
author = {Vessel, Edward A. and Isik, Ayse Ilkay and Belfi, Amy M. and Stahl, Jonathan L. and Starr, G. Gabrielle},
title = {The Default-Mode Network Represents Aesthetic Appeal That Generalizes Across Visual Domains},
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},
volume = {116},
number = {38},
pages = {19155--19164},
year = {2019},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.1902650116}
}
@article{pelowski_2011_model,
author = {Pelowski, Matthew and Akiba, Fuminori},
title = {A Model of Art Perception, Evaluation and Emotion in Transformative Aesthetic Experience},
journal = {New Ideas in Psychology},
volume = {29},
number = {2},
pages = {80--97},
year = {2011},
doi = {10.1016/j.newideapsych.2010.04.001}
}