Quinlan, J. A., Dunk, R. J., & Mar, R. A. (in press). Weird Reactions to Weird Twitter: How expectation and intention relate to appreciation for absurd humour. Psychology of Popular Media.
Quinlan, J. A., Padgett, J. K., Khajehnassiri, A., & Mar, R. A. (2022). Does a brief exposure to literary fiction improve social ability? Assessing the evidential value of published studies with a p-curve. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
Fong, K., Quinlan, J. A., & Mar, R. A. (2022). Select your character: Individuals needs and avatar choice. Psychology of Popular Media.
Quinlan, J. A., & Mar, R. A. (2020). How imagination supports narrative experiences for textual, audiovisual, and interactive narratives. In A. Abraham (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination (pp. 466–478). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Maslej, M. M., Quinlan, J. A., & Mar, R. A. (2019). Aesthetic responses to the characters, plots, worlds, and style of stories. In M. Nadal & O. Vartanian (Eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Aesthetics (pp. 721–750). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Bainbridge, T. F., Quinlan, J. A., Mar, R. A., & Smillie, L. D. (2018). Openness/intellect and susceptibility to pseudo‐profound bullshit: A replication and extension. European Journal of Personality, 33(1), 72-88.
Erentzen, C., Quinlan, J. A., & Mar, R. A. (2018). Sometimes you need more than a wingman: Masculinity, femininity, and the role of humor in men’s mental health help-seeking campaigns. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 37(2), 128-157.
Quinlan, J. A., Neath, I., & Surprenant, A. M. (2015). Positional uncertainty in the Brown-Peterson paradigm. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69(1), 64-71.
Manuscripts Under Review or In Preparation
Lin, Y. K.*, Quinlan, J. A.*, McManus, J., & Mar, R. A. (under review). Why do consumers buy cosmetic items in videogames? Development and validation of the Determinants of Love for Cosmetics Scale. Journal of Integrative Marketing.
* Indicates co-first authors
Ivanski, C., Quinlan, J.A., Nguyen, A. T. P., & Mar, R.A. (under review). Contagion and character: The role of personality in interest in pandemic media. Media Psychology.
Quinlan, J. A., Lo, R. F., Padgett, J. K., & Mar, R. A. (in prep.). Who plays what?: A gamer typology based on genre preferences.
Presentations
Quinlan, J. A., Padgett, J. K., & Mar, R. A. (July 2021). Does literary fiction improve social abilities? Assessing the evidential value using the p-curve. Presentation given virtually at the 32nd International Congress of Psychology.
Quinlan, J. A., & Mar, R. A. (February 2021). The role of video games in need satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic: A pre-registered longitudinal study. Poster presented virtually at the 22nd annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
Quinlan, J. A., & Mar, R. A. (February 2020). What we play: Multivariate descriptions of videogame genres. Poster presented at the Media and Technology pre-conference of the 21st annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in New Orleans, USA.
Quinlan, J. A., & Mar, R. A. (February 2019). The role of genre and transportability in the cultivation effects of videogames. Poster presented at the 20th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Portland, USA.
Quinlan, J. A., & Mar, R. A. (March 2018). The effect of expectation and intention on the appreciation of absurd humour. Poster presented at the 19th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Atlanta, USA.
Quinlan, J. A., Smillie, L., & Mar, R. A. (Jan. 2017). Personality and the attribution of meaning. Poster presented at the 18th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in San Antonio, USA.
Quinlan, J. A., Mar, R. A., Fong, K., & Rain, M. (July 2016). Getting the joke: A thematic analysis of perceptions of absurd humour. Presentation given at the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature Biennial Meeting in Chicago, USA.
Quinlan, J. A., Fong, K., Rain, M., & Mar, R. A. (July 2015). Finding sense in nonsense: Predicting reactions to the absurd using trait differences. Poster presented at the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences Conference in London, Canada.
Quinlan, J. A., Neath., I., & Surprenant, A. M. (July 2014). Error gradients in the Brown-Peterson paradigm. Poster presented at the 24th annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science in Toronto, Canada.
Thorpe, C. M., Hallett, D., Brown, A. R., Skinner, D. M., & Quinlan, J. A. (July 2014). Developmental changes in interval time-place learning. Poster presented at the 24th annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science in Toronto, Canada.