Recent Conference Presentations

Kuiken, D. The aesthetic effects of literary reading and impactful dreams: Sublime disquietude and sublime enthrallment. Paper presented at the conference of the International Association for Empirical Aesthetics, Vienna, Austria, August 2016.

Kuiken, D., Lee, M-N, Prinsen, R. The “dissociative” origins of impactful dreams in the aftermath of loss and trauma. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, Kerkrade, The Netherlands, June 2016.

Douglas, D., & Kuiken, D. A model for predicting emergent meaning during literary reading. Paper presented at the conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature, Chicago, USA, July 2016.

Kuijpers, M., Douglas, D., & Kuiken, D. Reading habits, openness to experience, and absorbed literary reading. Paper presented at the conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature, Chicago, USA, July 2016.

Kuiken, D., Porthukaran, A., Albrecht, K.-A., Douglas, S., & Cook, M. The effects of impactful dreams on associative and metaphoric cognition. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, Anaheim, California, June 2017.

Kuiken, D. The aesthetic effects of impactful dreams. Invited Presentation, University of Vienna, October 2017.

Kuiken, D. Living metaphor as the site of bidirectional literary engagement. Paper presented at Paris Institute of Advanced Study, A Conference on “Literariness.” Paris, France, October 2017.

Sopčák, P., Kuiken, D., & Douglas, S. The contrasting moral outcomes of experiential and explanatory reading. Paper presented as the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature, Stavanger, Norway, July 2018.

Kuiken, D., & Douglas, S. Gently captured: A pre-reflective moment during expressive enactment. Paper presented at the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature, Stavanger, Norway, July 2018.

Douglas, D., & Kuiken, D. Contrasting forms of creative cognition during literary reading. Paper presented at the conference of the International Association for Empirical Aesthetics, Toronto, Canada, August 2018.