Keith Oatley

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Name Keith Oatley Role Novelist

Books Understanding Emotions, Emotions: A Brief History, The Case of Emily V, Best Laid Schemes: The Psyc, The Passionate Muse: Ex
Education University of Cambridge

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Keith Oatley FRSC, FBPsS (16 March 1939) is an Anglo-Canadian novelist, and professor emeritus of cognitive psychology at the University of Toronto. His novel The Case of Emily V won the 1994 Commonwealth Prize for first novel.

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Life

Born in London, he was awarded a First in Psychology from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD in Psychology from University College London. He completed a post-doctoral year in Engineering in Medicine at Imperial College London. He moved to Canada in 1990.

Works

The Case of Emily V. Secker & Warburg. 1993. ISBN 978-0-436-32602-8. ; Keith Oatley, 2007, ISBN 978-1-929355-30-3

A natural history: a novel, Viking, 1998, ISBN 978-0-670-88167-3

Therefore Choose, Goose Lane Editions, 2010, ISBN 978-0-86492-616-6

Non-fiction

Brain mechanisms and mind, Dutton, 1972

Perceptions and representations Methuen, 1978, ISBN 978-0-416-86010-8

Selves in relation, Methuen, 1984, ISBN 978-0-416-33630-6

Emotions: A Brief History. Wiley-Blackwell. 2004. ISBN 978-1-4051-1315-1.

Best laid schemes: the psychology of emotions. Cambridge University Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-521-42387-8.

Keith Oatley, Dacher Keltner, Jennifer M. Jenkins (2006). Understanding emotions. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-3103-2. CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)

Jennifer M. Jenkins, Keith Oatley, Nancy L. Stein, eds. (1998). Human emotions: a reader. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-20748-1. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

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