Inducing narrative tension in the viewer through suspense, surprise, and curiosity

IF 2 2区 社会学 0 LITERATURE
Jesús Bermejo-Berros , Jaime Lopez-Diez , Miguel Angel Gil Martínez
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Abstract

Research into narrative tension is of interest in terms of the progress of knowledge of the processes and mechanisms by which stories are received and enjoyed. We have created four versions of an audiovisual story with three different structures of fiction (suspense, surprise, curiosity) and one of non-fiction. We have investigated the effects of the narrative tension of these stories with four groups of subjects (N=94). The results show that the organization of the stories, depending on their structures of suspense, surprise, or curiosity, induces narrative tension, while the non-fictional story, induces cognitive and affective effects of another kind. Narrative tension appears during narrative progression. It is manifested by cognitive-affective responses that include anticipations, diagnoses, retrospections, and emotions. In narrative tension, curiosity plays a triggering and organizing role in suspense and surprise. The emotions and cognitions that result from narrative tension during plot construction underpin the experience of enjoyment. The Multidimensional Narrative Tension Theory of Enjoyment that emerges from this research allows establishing connections between narrative theory concerned with narrative progression and plot, the psychology of interest, and the psychology of media enjoyment.

通过悬念、惊喜和好奇在观众中引起叙事张力
关于叙事张力的研究是关于故事被接受和欣赏的过程和机制的知识进展的。我们创造了四个版本的视听故事,其中有三种不同的小说结构(悬疑,惊喜,好奇)和一种非小说结构。我们用四组被试(N=94)调查了这些故事的叙事张力的影响。结果表明,故事的组织,取决于其悬念、惊喜或好奇的结构,引起叙事紧张,而非虚构的故事,引起另一种认知和情感效应。叙事张力出现在叙事进程中。它表现为认知-情感反应,包括预期、诊断、回顾和情绪。在叙事张力中,好奇心在悬念和惊喜中起着触发和组织作用。在情节构建过程中,叙事张力所产生的情感和认知支撑着游戏的享受体验。从这项研究中产生的多维叙事张力享受理论建立了与叙事进程和情节有关的叙事理论、兴趣心理学和媒体享受心理学之间的联系。
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Poetics
Poetics Multiple-
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期刊介绍: Poetics is an interdisciplinary journal of theoretical and empirical research on culture, the media and the arts. Particularly welcome are papers that make an original contribution to the major disciplines - sociology, psychology, media and communication studies, and economics - within which promising lines of research on culture, media and the arts have been developed.
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