J Black

Biographic Data

ID58341
NAMEJ Black
GIVEN NAMESJ
FAMILY NAMEBlack
SIGNATUREBLACK J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Exeter
ORCID0000-0002-9710-3297
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS80
TOTAL CITATIONS52
AUTHOR COUNT80
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1957
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX4

  • Fighting tuberculosis hand in hand

    Open AccessNandini Venkatesan, Lena Faust et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease closely intertwined with stigma, discrimination, and the social determinants of health. Communities of people affected by TB are experts in their care pathways, but the TB field continues to fall short of meaningfully engaging communities in TB research. This is a missed opportunity to improve the quality, relevance, person-centeredness, positive impact, and sustainability of TB research outputs. We ackn…

  • Remaking research relationality

    Open AccessJanessa Esquible, Avery Hoffman et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2025

    This paper presents methodological research approaches utilised with Indigenous communities in the Kuskokwim Region of southwestern Alaska. The project is situated in the communities of Kongiganak, Quinhagak, Bethel, Aniak, and McGrath, spanning the Kuskokwim Bay and Kuskokwim River, and with Alaska Native Peoples who have been Salmon Peoples and stewards of their ancestral homelands since time immemorial. We specifically expand upon methodologie…

  • Reading fiction about refugee children

    Open AccessJ BlackARTICLEPoetics2025References: 1

  • Does writing promote social cognition? The role of fictionality and social content

    J Black, Jennifer L Barnes et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Aesthetics…2024

  • What’s in a name? Book title salience and the psychology of fiction

    Jennifer L Barnes, Jennifer Barnes et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Aesthetics…2022

  • The Imaginative Engagement Scale

    J Black, Brian Ruedinger et al.ARTICLEMedia Psychology2022

    Prior research has focused on individual differences in how readers engage with narratives; however, much of this work has focused a tendency to become immersed or swept up in narratives. The purpose of the four studies reported here was to develop and validate a self-report measure tapping individual differences in a tendency to step back to think or imagine while engaging with narratives. The resulting trait Imaginative Engagement Scale (IES) c…

  • Beyond the Manuscript

    Kimberly Stone, J Black et al.ARTICLEProgress in community health…2022

    Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action - Volume 16, Issue 3, Fall 2022

  • Healing the Sick City

    Open AccessErin Cunningham, J BlackARTICLEJournal of Urban History2022

    Lillian Wald brought public health nursing to New York City’s congested Lower East Side in summer 1893, where she recorded tenement dwellers’ suffering from cuts, burns, breaks, deaths, illness, and childbirth. Together, nurses traveling streets, alleys, rooftops, and hallways, alongside dwellers acting as “local guides,” inaugurated vernacular mappings. Drawing on letters Wald wrote to her benefactor, Jacob Schiff, in July 1893, describing visit…

  • Fiction and morality

    J Black, Jennifer L Barnes et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Popular Media2021

  • Pushing the boundaries of reality

    J Black, Jennifer L Barnes et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Aesthetics…2021

  • Social Planning in a Physical World

    Open AccessJ Black, Joel E Black et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban History2021

  • Recognition as a measure of television exposure

    J Black, Jennifer L Barnes et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Popular Media2020

  • Tell Me a Story

    J Black, Molly Oberstein-Allen et al.ARTICLEJournal for the Cognitive Science…2020

    Sacred stories and religious texts play a central role in religion, yetthere is a paucity of research investigating the relationship betweenreligiosity and individual differences in how people engage with stories.Here, we examine the relationship between religiosity, as well asa belief in God, and three variables related to how individuals interactwith narratives: a tendency to become absorbed in stories (transportability),a tendency to form rela…

  • Morality and the imagination

    J Black, Jennifer L Barnes et al.ARTICLEPhilosophical Psychology2020

    The purpose of this paper was to test whether imaginative resistance – a term used in the philosophical literature to describe the reluctance to imagine counter-moral worlds – is experienced by people when they are asked to do something rather than just imagine it. Prior research suggests that people find it more difficult to imagine morally deviant worlds. Here, in a within-subjects design, we asked participants to describe in writing morally de…

  • Who can resist a villain? Morality, Machiavellianism, imaginative resistance and liking for dark fictional characters

    Open AccessJ Black, Jessica E Black et al.ARTICLEPoetics2019Cited by: 4References: 34

  • Chimpanzee vertebrate consumption

    Open AccessJim Moore, J Black et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2017Cited by: 7References: 81

  • Does reading a single passage of literary fiction really improve theory of mind? An attempt at replication

    Maria Eugenia Panero, Deena Skolnick Weisberg et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…2016Cited by: 11

    < .001, d = 0.21. All versions of this article have been corrected.] Fiction simulates the social world and invites us into the minds of characters. This has led various researchers to suggest that reading fiction improves our understanding of others' cognitive and emotional states. Kidd and Castano (2013) received a great deal of attention by providing support for this claim. Their article reported that reading segments of literary fiction (but …

  • An Introduction to the Moral Agency Scale

    J Black, Jessica E BlackARTICLESocial Psychology2016Cited by: 1References: 40

    The purpose of this research was to develop a psychometric measure of moral agency and explore its relationship with related moral constructs. Although our legal system, daily interactions with others, and most theories about moral psychology assume moral agency, few researchers have studied it, and there is no instrument devised to specifically measure it. Here, we present the Moral Agency Scale (MAS), a self-report instrument designed to assess…

  • The effects of reading material on social and non-social cognition

    Open AccessJ Black, Jessica E Black et al.ARTICLEPoetics2015Cited by: 6References: 38

  • A Crime to Live Without Work

    J BlackARTICLEMichigan Historical Review2010

  • Collecting connoisseurs and building to house a collection

    J Black, John W BlackARTICLEJournal of the History of…2009

    The essay will explore how sculptor Dora Gordine (1895-1991) proved not only skilled in persuading collectors to buy her work, but also in befriending many of the leading European collectors and connoisseurs of her oeuvre. Such friendships conferred upon her a much-needed respectability, for many who knew her well remained unsure as to the exact details of her origins and past life in Eastern Europe. Marriage to the Hon. Richard Hare, allowed Gor…

  • The First Total War

    J BlackARTICLEThe English Historical Review2008Cited by: 10

  • Using History, Making British Policy

    J BlackARTICLEThe English Historical Review2008

    This interesting, well-written and clearly-organised book will be of value to those interested in British governmental policy-making in the third quarter of the last century and, more generally, to those concerned with the potential relevance of historical study in the public sphere. The book is organised into four sections, a substantial introductory one that considers the use of history in Britain, a second on using history in the Treasury, a t…

  • Georgian Monarchy, Politics and Culture, 1714-1760

    J BlackARTICLEThe English Historical Review2008

    In this wide-ranging, archivally well-grounded, and interesting volume, Hannah Smith joins the lists of those offering revisionist accounts of the reigns of George I and George II, although her bibliography is far from complete and, in particular, she needs to add David Flaten's ‘King George II and the Politicians: The Struggle for Political Power’ (Ph.D., Fordham, 1999). She argues that the monarchs were more popular than is generally appreciate…

  • Cultures of Power in Europe during the Long Eighteenth Century

    J BlackARTICLEThe English Historical Review2008Cited by: 4

    Journal Article Cultures of Power in Europe during the Long Eighteenth Century Get access Cultures of Power in Europe during the Long Eighteenth Century, ed. Hamish Scott and Brendan Simms (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2007; pp. xv + 382. N.p.). Jeremy Black Jeremy Black University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIII, Issue 505, December 2008, Pages 1559–156…