Introduction: reflections and prognoses / Don Kuiken and Arthur M. Jacobs
Sound shape and sound effects of literary texts / Stefan Blohm, Maria Kraxenberger, Christine A. Knoop, Mathias Scharinger
Contextual meaning-making in reading: the role of affect / Jana Lüdtke, Johanna K. Kaakinen, Arthur M. Jacobs
Mental simulation during literary reading / Marloes Mak, Roel M. Willems
Constructing mental models in literary reading: the role of interpretive inferences / Kathryn S. McCarthy, Joseph P. Magliano, Sarah R. Levine, Andrew Elfenbein, William S. Horton
Empirical Studies of Poetic Metaphor / Joseph Glicksohn, Chanita Goodblatt - Foregrounding / Willie van Peer, Paul Sopčák, Davide Castiglione, Olivia Fialho, Arthur M. Jacobs, Frank Hakemulder
The psychological and social effects of literariness: formal features and paratextual information / Markus Appel, David Hanauer, Hans Hoeken, Kobie van Krieken, Tobias Richter, José Sanders
Children's reading for pleasure with digital books / Natalia Kucirkova, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
Stories and their role in social cognition / Jessica E. Black, Jennifer L. Barnes, Keith Oatley, Diana I. Tamir, David Dodell-Feder, Tobias Richter, Raymond A. Mar
Character engagement and identification / Rebecca (Riva) Tukachinsky Forster
Narrative absorption: an overview / Moniek M. Kuijpers, Shawn Douglas, Katalin Bálint
Openness, reflective engagement, and self-altering literary reading / Don Kuiken, Paul Sopčák
Meaningful responses to narrative digital media: research from a media psychology perspective / Mary Beth Oliver, Ryan RuiYang Tan, Olivia S. Reed
Audience reception of tragic entertainment and the value of cathartic reflection / Guan Soon Khoo
Literary reading and mental wellbeing / Josie Billington, Mette Steenberg
Poetic writing research: the history, methods, and outcomes of poetic (auto) ethnography / David Hanauer
Computational stylistics / J. Berenike Herrmann, Arthur M. Jacobs, Andrew Piper
Philosophy of science, methodology, and theory development in empirical studies of literary experience / Mark J. Bruhn
The history of the empirical study of literature from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century / Massimo Salgaro.