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Associate Professor, York Universitymar@yorku.ca                                       Field : PsychologyResearch areas: Relation between social cognition and stories; Genre differences for fiction outcomes; Embodied cognition; Narrative transportation.Relevant publications Mar, R. A. (in press). Evaluating Whether Stories can Promote Social Cognition: Introducing the Social Processes and Content Entrained by Narrative (SPaCEN) Framework. Discourse Processe. Mar, R. A. &#38; Rain, M. (2015). Narrative fiction and expository nonfiction differentially predict verbal ability. Scientific Studies of Reading, 19, 419-433. Mar, R. A. (2011). The neural bases of social cognition and story comprehension. Annual Review of Psychology, 62, 103-134.See also : www.yorku.ca/mar