I’m honored to have a blog post published on the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) official blog. You can read it here:
This essay resulted from me happily falling down a research rabbit hole of empathy, A.I., design fiction, and related concepts. Here’s my research list in case you’d like to take a similar plunge:
| Author(s) | Title | Year |
| Adler, Nancy J. | The Arts & Leadership: Now That We Can Do Anything, What Will We Do? | 2017 |
| Bal PM, Veltkamp M | How Does Fiction Reading Influence Empathy? An Experimental Investigation on the Role of Emotional Transportation | 2013 |
| Blythe, Mark A. & Wright, Peter C. | Pastiche scenarios: Fiction as a resource for user centred design | 2006 |
| Bunce, Louise & Stansfield, John | The Relationship Between Empathy and Reading Fiction: Separate Roles for Cognitive and Affective Components | 2014 |
| Djikic, Maja & Oatley, Keith & Moldoveanu, Mihnea | Reading other minds: Effects of literature on empathy | 2013 |
| Dourish, Paul & Bell, Genevieve | “Resistance is futile”: reading science fiction alongside ubiquitous computing | 2014 |
| Fei-Fei Li | Opinion | How to Make A.I. That’s Good for People | 2018 |
| Fraiberg, A. | Fiction, business studies, and leadership: From know‐how to embracing the impossible | 2010 |
| Geoff Colvin | Humans are underrated | 2015 |
| Johnson, D. R., Cushman, G. K., Borden, L. A., & McCune, M. S. | Potentiating empathic growth: Generating imagery while reading fiction increases empathy and prosocial behavior | 2013 |
| Johnson, Dan R. | Transportation into a story increases empathy, prosocial behavior, and perceptual bias toward fearful expressions | 2011 |
| Kohei Nomura and Seiki Akai | Empathy with Fictional Stories: Reconsideration of the Fantasy Scale of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index | 2012 |
| Lackey, Chad | Social Science Fiction: Writing Sociological Short Stories to Learn about Social Issues | 1994 |
| Michael Sainato | Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates Warn About Artificial Intelligence | 2015 |
| Peterson, Jordan B. ; Oatley, Keith & Mar, Raymond A. | Exploring the link between reading fiction and empathy: Ruling out individual differences and examining outcomes | 2009 |
| Raymond A. Mar, Keith Oatley, Maja Djikic & Justin Mullin | Emotion and narrative fiction: Interactive influences before, during, and after reading | 2010 |
| Steven S. Taylor and Donna Ladkin | Understanding Arts-Based Methods in Managerial Development | 2017 |
| Sturdee, Miriam & Coulton, Paul & Lindley, Joseph & Stead, Mike & Ali, Haider & Hudson-Smith, Andrew | Design Fiction: How to Build a Voight-Kampff Machine | 2016 |
| Tanenbaum, Joshua & Pufal, Marcel & Tanenbaum, Karen | The limits of our imagination: design fiction as a strategy for engaging with dystopian futures | 2016 |
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