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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Social Psychology, Industrial and Organisational Psychology,Communication Sciences |
| Keywords | narrative, social-cognitive abilities, literature, media, reading |
| Honours and awards | 2019: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) 2018: Established Career Research Award (York University) 2016: Tom Trabasso Young Investigator Award (Society for Text and Discourse) 2012: Dean’s Health Research Catalyst Award (York University) |
Current contact address
| Country | Canada |
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| City | Toronto |
| Institution | York University |
| Institute | Department of Psychology |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Tobias Richter | Lehrstuhl für Psychologie IV, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/01/2020 |
Programme(s)
| 2019 | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Mar is internationally renowned for his innovative research at the intersection of cognitive psychology, literary studies, and systems neuroscience. His work on the relationship of social cognition and story comprehension, on the impact of literary stories on social-cognitive abilities such as empathy and the ability to infer and reason about other people’s thoughts, has had a tremendous impact on the field. During his stay in Germany, he intends to combine his field of research with related topics. |