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  1. Imaginary worlds, real effects? Testing the effects of abstaining from narrative fiction on social cognition.

    Article • Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts, February 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Lena Wimmer

  2. Higher instead of lower accessibility of fiction texts increases epistemic vigilance during reading.

    Article • Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts, October 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Lena Wimmer

  3. Cognitive effects of reading fiction

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, April 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Lena Wimmer

  4. The effects of reading narrative fiction on social and moral cognition

    Article • Scientific Study of Literature, December 2021, International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature

    Lena Wimmer, Stacie Friend

  5. Non-conventional figurative language as aesthetics of everyday communication

    Article • Metaphor and the Social World, October 2016, John Benjamins

    Ursula Christmann, Lena Wimmer

  6. The aesthetic paradox in processing conventional and non-conventional metaphors

    Article • Scientific Study of Literature, December 2011, International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature

    Norbert Groeben, Ursula Christmann, Lena Wimmer