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Eekhof, Lynn S.; van Krieken, Kobie; Sanders, José; Willems, Roel M. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2023
This article explores the role of text and reader characteristics in character engagement experiences. In an online study, participants completed several self-report and behavioral measures of social-cognitive abilities and read two literary narratives in which the presence of linguistic viewpoint markers was varied using a highly controlled…
Descriptors: Social Cognition, Cognitive Ability, Emotional Response, Reading Processes
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Schmidt, Marie-Luise C. R.; Winkler, Julia R.; Appel, Markus; Richter, Tobias – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2023
Emotional shifts in stories are assumed to contribute to narrative persuasion by enhancing engagement with the story. This effect might depend on the congruency of audiences' emotional experience to the emotions implied by the story. In two experiments with well-controlled story manipulations, we compared the persuasive effect of stories with…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Story Telling, Narration, Persuasive Discourse