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  1. Does writing promote social cognition? The role of fictionality and social content.

    Article • Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts, October 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Jessica Black

  2. Fiction and morality: Investigating the associations between reading exposure, empathy, morality, and moral judgment.

    Article • Psychology of Popular Media, April 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Jessica E Black, Jessica Black

  3. What’s in a name? Book title salience and the psychology of fiction.

    Article • Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts, July 2020, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Jessica Black

  4. Morality and the imagination: Real-world moral beliefs interfere with imagining fictional content

    Article • Philosophical Psychology, June 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Jessica Black

  5. Cognitive Science of Imagination and Religion

    Article • Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion, January 2020, Equinox Publishing

    Jessica Black

  6. Pushing the boundaries of reality: Science fiction, creativity, and the moral imagination.

    Article • Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts, August 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Jessica E Black, Jessica Black

  7. Recognition as a measure of television exposure: Multiple measures and their relationship to theory of mind.

    Article • Psychology of Popular Media Culture, July 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Jessica E Black, Jessica Black

  8. Who can resist a villain? Morality, Machiavellianism, imaginative resistance and liking for dark fictional characters

    Article • Poetics, June 2019, Elsevier

    Jessica Black

  9. Fiction, genre exposure, and moral reality.

    Article • Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts, August 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Jessica Black

  10. What you read and what you believe: Genre exposure and beliefs about relationships.

    Article • Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts, July 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Jessica Black

  11. An IRT Analysis of the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test

    Article • Journal of Personality Assessment, April 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Jessica E Black, Jessica Black

  12. Chimpanzee vertebrate consumption: Savanna and forest chimpanzees compared

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, November 2017, Elsevier

    Jessica Black

  13. Game-Based Learning and Information Literacy

    Article • International Journal of Game-Based Learning, October 2017, IGI Global

    Jessica Black

  14. Measuring the unimaginable: Imaginative resistance to fiction and related constructs

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, June 2017, Elsevier

    Jessica Black

  15. No support for the claim that literary fiction uniquely and immediately improves theory of mind: A reply to Kidd and Castano’s commentary on Panero et al. (2016).

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, March 2017, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Jessica Black

  16. An Introduction to the Moral Agency Scale

    Article • Social Psychology, November 2016, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Jessica E Black, Jessica Black

  17. Does reading a single passage of literary fiction really improve theory of mind? An attempt at replication.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, November 2016, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Jessica Black

  18. Impossible or Improbable

    Article • Imagination Cognition and Personality, July 2016, SAGE Publications

    Jessica Black

  19. Development, reliability, and validity of the Moral Identity Questionnaire

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, July 2016, Elsevier

    Jessica Black

  20. Moral Agency Scale

    Article • January 2016, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Jessica Black

  21. Fiction and social cognition: The effect of viewing award-winning television dramas on theory of mind.

    Article • Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts, November 2015, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Jessica Black

  22. The effects of reading material on social and non-social cognition

    Article • Poetics, October 2015, Elsevier

    Jessica Black

  23. Examining the relationship of perfectionism, depression, and optimism: Testing for mediation and moderation

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, February 2013, Elsevier

    Jessica Black