Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Zoe Walkington, Graham Pike and Siobhan Campbell.

The authors would like to thank the Open Psychology Research Centre for supporting the development of this course, Hannah Parish for her expertise and kind help, Andrew Rix for his filming expertise, and Lin Anderson, Gordon Brown, Val McDermid, Sir Ian Rankin and Craig Robertson for their time and insights into the creative process.

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Introduction and guidance

Images

Course image: left; From The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith published by Vintage. Copyright © Patricia Highsmith, 1955, 1959. Copyright renewed © Patricia Highsmith 1983 . Reprinted by permission of Penguin Books Limited; Centre: Misery (1987), Stephen King, courtesy of Robert Giusti; Right: The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York

Bloody Scotland festival logo: courtesy of Bloody Scotland board.

Week 1

Images

Introduction image: © Walt Disney Co./Courtesy Everett Collection; Alamy Stock Photos

Section 2.1 image: TimDuncan; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

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Section 2.3 image: BlockyS; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

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Section 3.2 image: designer491; Getty Images

Audio/Video

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Section 2 video: Sleuths, Spies and Sorcerers: Andrew Marr’s Paperback Heroes, Episode 1, © BBC

Section 2.1 video © The Open University

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Week 2

Images

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Section 1.1 image: lucigerma; Getty Images

Section 2.1 image: Fenris Oswin; Alamy Stock Photo

Section 3 image: Roman Didkivskyi; Getty Images

Section 3.1 image: PeopleImages; Getty Images

Section 3.4 image: Pako Mera / Alamy Stock Photo

Section 3.5 image: photo by Engin Akyurt; Pexels

Text

Activity 2: adapted from Davis, M. H. (1983) ‘Measuring individual differences in empathy: Evidence for a multidimensional approach’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 44(1), pp. 113–126. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.44.1

Audio/visual

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Week 3

Images

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Section 2 image: Roman Samborskyi; Getty Images

Section 2.5 image: Eileen Groome; Getty Images

Section 3 image: Roman Samborskyi; Shutterstock.com

Section 3.1 image: Sarah Mason; Getty Images

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Audio/visual

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Week 4

Images

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The inclusion of other in self image: Standford University; SPARQtools

Section 3 image: Entertainment Pictures / Alamy Stock Photo

Section 7 image: ljubaphoto; Getty Images

Lin Anderson image: TimDuncan; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

Gordon Brown image: BlockyS; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

Val McDermid image: Fenris Oswin; Alamy Stock Photo

Sir Ian Rankin image: TimDuncan; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

Craig Robertson image: Pako Mera / Alamy Stock Photo

Audio/visual

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Full author videos: © The Open University

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