Keith Oatley

Keith Oatley FRSC, FBPsS (16 March 1939) is an Anglo-Canadian novelist, and professor emeritus of cognitive psychology at the University of Toronto.^[1] His novel The Case of Emily V won the 1994 Commonwealth Prize for first novel.

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.^[2]

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.
• Jennifer M. Jenkins; Keith Oatley; Nancy L. Stein, eds. (1998). Human emotions: a reader. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-20748-1.
• Our Minds, Our Selves: A Brief History of Psychology. Princeton University Press. 2018. ISBN 978-0-691-17508-9.

References

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