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Professor, Department of Psychology, Stony Brook Universityrichard.gerrig@stonybrook.edu &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;Field&#160;: &#160;&#160;PsycholinguisticsRelevantpublications Mumper, M. M.,&#160; &#38; Gerrig, R.J. &#160;(2017).&#160; Leisure reading and social abilities: A meta-analysis.&#160; Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and theArts, 11,109-120.&#160; Bezdek, M.A., &#38; Gerrig, R. J.&#160; (2017).&#160; Whennarrative transportation narrows attention:&#160;Changes in attentional focus during suspenseful film viewing.&#160; MediaPsychology, 20, 60-89.&#160; &#160;Gerrig, R. J., &#38; Mumper, M. M.  (2017).  How readers' lives affect narrative experiences.  In M. Burke &#38; E. Troscianko  (Eds.), Dialogues Between Literature and Cognition (239-257).  Oxford:  Oxford University Press.Gerrig, R. J., Bagelmann, K. A., &#38; Mumper, M. M.&#160; (2016).&#160;On the origins of readers’ outcome preferences.&#160; DiscourseProcesses, 53, 603–631.Bezdek, M. A., Gerrig, R. J.,Wenzel, W. G., Shin, J., Revill, K. P., &#38; Schumacher, E. H.&#160;&#160; (2015).&#160; Neuralevidence that suspense narrows attentional focus.&#160; Neuroscience,303, 338-345. Wenzel, W. G., &#38; Gerrig, R. J.&#160;(2015).&#160; Convergent and divergentthinking in the context of narrative mysteries.&#160;Discourse Processes, 52, 489-516.&#160; 