Keith Oatley is Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Toronto. His main research is on human emotions and the psychology of fiction. He is the originator, and now co-author, of the principal textbook on the psychology of emotions, Understanding Emotions (Wiley), now in its fourth edition. He is sole author of seven other books of psychology, most recently Our Minds, Our Selves (Princeton University Press) and three novels the first of which, The Case of Emily V., won a Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book. He has also written a hybrid book, The Passionate Muse (Oxford University Press), a novella in seven parts each accompanied by a commentary on emotions that may be experienced while reading it. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.
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