What inferences do readers make about “who knows what” in narrative worlds? We introduce the concepts of projected knowledge and projected co-presence to describe circumstances in which readers infer that characters possess information presented, for example, only in narration. Our experiments examine one type of evidence readers use to project knowledge. In Experiment 1, readers used character...

The ongoing problems in business leadership over the past five years have underscored the need for a new kind of leader in the twenty-first century: the authentic leader. Author Bill George, a Harvard Business School professor and the former chairman and CEO of Medtronic, and his colleagues, conducted the largest leadership development study ever undertaken. They interviewed 125 business leader...

structural studies of literary works, which seek to examine the inner textual elements and to discover their connections, provide the grounds for better understanding the essence of literature and by presenting the devices of creating excellent literature can help us to expand the patterns of processing a literary work. a number of structural critics have dealt with the narrative forms by study...

Event detection is a key aspect of story development which is composed of multiple narrative layers. Most of the narratives are template-based and follow a narration theory. In this paper, we demonstrate a narrative from events detected in the international relations domain along with classification of events using our novel mediation ontology. We also introduce a novel method of classifying ev...

In many interactive narrative pieces, agency is often narrowly understood as a user’s freedom to either perform actions or alter the mechanics of narration at will. This paper presents an interactive narrative project, Memory, Reverie Machine (MRM), which explores the expressive use of agency as a narrative device. After a concise review of the concept’s rich social implications and its adaptat...