Britton, B.F., & Graesser, A.C. (1996) (Eds.). Models of understanding text. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Refereed Journal Publications (does not include book chapters)

Golding, J. M., Graesser, A. C., & Hauselt, J. (1996). The process of answering direction-giving questions is lost on a university campus: The role of pragmatics. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 10, 23-39.

Graesser, A.C., Baggett, W., & Williams, K. (1996). Question-driven explanatory reasoning. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 10, S17-S32.

Graesser, A. C., Bommareddy, S., Swamer, S., & Golding, J.M. (1996). Integrating questionnaire design with a cognitive computational model of human question answering. In N. Schwarz & S. Sudman (Eds.), Answering questions: Methodology for Determining Cognitive and Communicative Processes in Survey Research (pp. 143-175). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Graesser, A.C. & Britton, B. (1996). Five metaphors for understanding. In B. K. Britton & A. C. Graesser (Eds.), Models of understanding text (pp. 341-352). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Graesser, A.C. & Ottati, V. (1996). Why stories? Some evidence, questions, and challenges. In R.S. Wyer (Ed.), Knowledge and memory: The real story (pp. 121-132). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Graesser, A. C., Person, N., & Johnston, G. S. (1996). Three obstacles in empirical research on aesthetic and literary comprehension. In R. J. Kreuz & M. S. MacNealy (Eds.), Empirical approaches to literature and aesthetics (pp. 3-22). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Graesser, A. C., Swamer, S. S., Baggett, W. B., & Sell, M. A. (1996). New models of deep comprehension. In B. K. Britton & A. C. Graesser (Eds.), Models of understanding text (pp. 1-32). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Magliano, J. P., Baggett, W. B., & Graesser, A. C. (1996). A taxonomy of inference categories that may be generated during the comprehension of literary texts. In R. J. Kreuz & M. S. MacNealy (Eds.), Empirical approaches to literature and aesthetics (pp. 201-220). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Tidwell, P.M., Graesser, A.C., & Hall, L. (1996). In the Proceedings of the Society for Consumer Psychology.

Franklin, S., & Graesser, A.C. (1996). Is it an agent or just a program? A taxonomy for autonomous agents. Proceedings of the Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages Workshop. Berlin: Springer-Verlap.

Graesser, A.C., and Bowers, C. (1996). Review of ÒDeixis in Narrative: A Cognitive Science Perspective.Ó Minds and Machines, 6, 395-399.

Graesser, A.C. (1996). Review of ÒTime-constrained Memory: A Reader-based Approach to Text Comprehension.Ó Computational Linguistics, 22, 265-266.

Graesser, A.C. (1996, September). Simulating tutorial dialogue. Paper presented at the Office of Naval Research conference on tutoring, National Academy of Sciences, Woods Hole, MA.

Person, N. & Graesser, A.C. (1996, October). Evolution of discourse in naturalistic tutoring. Paper presented at conference on ÒCognitive Perspectives on Peer Tutoring,Ó Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

Ottati, V., Graesser, A., & Rhoads, S. (May, 1996). Poster presented at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, May, 1996.

Graesser, A.C., Bowers, C.A., Cregger, M.E. (1996, July). Who knows what? Who said what? Multiple agents in literary narrative. Paper presented at the Sixth Annual Meetings of the Society for Text and Discourse, San Diego, CA.

McLain-Allen, B., Graesser, A.C., Kassler, M.A., & Kreuz, R.J. (1996, July). Verification of typical versus atypical information in ÒEinsteinÕs Dreams.Ó Paper presented at the Sixth Annual Meetings of the Society for Text and Discourse, San Diego, CA.

Tipping, P.D. & Graesser, A.C. (1996, July). Active learning, passive learning, software, and texts: Does it really make a difference? Paper presented at the Sixth Annual Meetings of the Society for Text and Discourse, San Diego, CA.

Cregger, M.E., Graesser, A.C., & Marks, W. (1996, August). What is interesting? Paper presented at the meetings of the International Society for the Empirical Studies of Literature, Art, and Media, Banff, Canada.

Graesser, A.C., & Bowers, C.A. (1996, August). Remembering who said what in short stories. Paper presented at the meetings of the International Society for the Empirical Studies of Literature, Art, and Media, Banff, Canada.

McLain-Allen, B. & Graesser, A.C. (1996, August). The cognitive abilities of actors and nonactors. Paper presented at the meetings of the International Society for the Empirical Studies of Literature, Art, and Media, Banff, Canada.

Magliano, J., Trabasso, T., & Graesser, A.C. (November, 1996). Inferences during narrative comprehension. Paper presented at the meetings of the Psychonomic Science Society, Chicago, IL.

Publications for 1995

Graesser, A. C., Person, N. K., & Magliano, J. P. (1995). Collaborative dialogue patterns in naturalistic one-to-one tutoring. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 9, 359.1-28.

Linz, D., Donnerstein, E., Shafer, B. J., Land, K. C., McCall, P. L., & Graesser, A. C. (1995). Discrepancies between the legal code and community standards for sex and violence: An empirical challenge to traditional assumptions in obscenity law. Law & Society Review, 29, 127-168.

Person, N. K., Kreuz, R. J., Zwaan, R., & Graesser, A. C. (1995). Pragmatics and pedagogy: Conversational rules and politeness strategies may inhibit effective tutoring. Cognition and Instruction, 13, 161-188.

Zwaan, R. A., Langston, M. C., & Graesser, A. C. (1995). The construction of situation models in narrative comprehension: An event-indexing model. Psychological Science, 6, 292-297.

Zwaan, R. A., Magliano, J. P., & Graesser, A. C. (1995). Dimensions of situation model construction in narrative comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21, 386-397.

Graesser, A. C., Bertus, E. L., & Magliano, J. P. (1995). Inference generation during the comprehension of narrative text. In Lorch, R. & OÕBrien, E. (Eds.), Sources of coherence in text comprehension (pp. 295-320). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Graesser, A. C., Kassler, M. A., Dijkstra, K., Zwaan, R. A., McLain Allen, B. (1995). Comprehending novel mental models of time in ÒEinsteinÕs Dreams.Ó In G. Rusch (Ed.), Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (pp. 348-353), Siegen, Germany: Siegen University Press.

Graesser, A.C., & Wilkiewicz, J.J. (1995). Preface. Book written by Joachim Hasebrook, Electronic media for learning. Heidelberg, Germany: SPEKTRUM.

Graesser, A. C., & Zwaan, R. A. (1995). Inference generation and the construction of situation models. In C. A. Weaver, S. Mannes, & C. R. Fletcher (Eds.), Discourse comprehension: Strategies and processing revisited (pp. 117-139). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Baggett, W.B., & Graesser, A.C. (1995). Question answering in the context of illustrated expository text. Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 334-339). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Graesser, A.C. (1995). Imagine law without simple rules. Contemporary Psychology, 40, 143-144.