Stories are to entertain: A structural-affect theory of stories☆
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This research was supported in part by the National Institute of Education under Contract No. HEW-NIE-C-400-76-0116.
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William F. Brewer. Received his B.A. from Harvard College in 1963, his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1967. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Institute of Communications Research and is associated with the Center for the Study of Reading, all at the University of Illinois. He carries out a research in cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, memory, reading comprehension, schema theory, and stories.
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Edward H. Lichtenstein. Received his B.A. from Dickinson College in 1972 and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1979. He has worked as a Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Reading, University of Illinois and is now at the Communication Department of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology. His research interests are in cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, memory, speech production, and reading processes in the deaf.