{"pk":26418,"title":"The Permeability of Fictional Worlds","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Real people sometimes appear in fiction, for example,Napoleon in War and Peace. Readers may also believe that aperson who never actually appears in a novel couldpotentially appear there. In two experiments, we find evidencethat readers think that a real person could appear in specificnovels and physically interact with a character. This effect ismagnified when the person and character share spatial andtemporal elements of their setting.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"fictional worlds; world knowledge; novels"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4906z4cb","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Meghan","middle_name":"M.","last_name":"Salomon","name_suffix":"","institution":"Northwestern University","department":""},{"first_name":"Lance","middle_name":"J.","last_name":"Rips","name_suffix":"","institution":"Northwestern University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T10:00:00-08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26418/galley/16054/download/"}]}