What belongs in a fictional world?

Journal of Cognition and Culture

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 69-78

  Weisberg, Deena Skolnick ^a   Goodstein, Joshua ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult cognition; Fiction; Imaginative resistance; Possible worlds; Reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350077540     PISSN: 15677095     EISSN: 15685373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853709X414647     Document Type: Article

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