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The psychology of fiction with Jennifer Lynn Barnes

ReThinking

CHAPTER

The Imaginative Engagement Scale

"I've always loved about fiction is puzzle solving. And most of the time I have no idea what the mystery is going to be," she says. "You're putting things that aren't there, you're theorizing, you're filling in gaps and trying to figure out what's going to happen" The author uses fandom as an example of extreme imaginative engagement with fiction.

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