The Experience of Emotional Shifts in Narrative Persuasion

IF 3.4 2区心理学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Media Psychology Pub Date : 2022-08-02 DOI:10.1080/15213269.2022.2103711

Julia R. Winkler, Markus Appel, Marie-Luise C. R. Schmidt, Tobias Richter

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Recent theory on narrative processes suggests that changes in recipients’ emotional responses (emotional shifts) are characteristic of immersed story processing and precursors of narrative impact. In two experiments and a pilot study, a novel self-probed emotional retrospection task was used to measure emotional shifts. We examined the link between transportation and emotional shifts and the association of these processes with story-consistent attitudes, social sharing intentions, and behavior. We manipulated transportation via positive and negative reviews prior to story exposure. Consistent with theory, and across both experiments, we found that transportation was positively associated with the number and intensity of emotional shifts. Transportation was linked to affective-level attitudes in particular. While emotional shifts were not related to attitudes in Experiment 1, they were related to affective-level attitudes and social sharing intentions in Experiment 2. We further discuss the validity of emotional shifts measured through self-probed retrospections in light of the results of the presented studies.

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叙事说服中的情感转换体验

最近的叙事过程理论认为，接受者情绪反应的变化(情绪转移)是浸入式故事加工的特征，是叙事影响的前兆。在两个实验和一项初步研究中，采用一种新颖的自我探究情绪回顾任务来测量情绪转移。我们研究了交通和情感转变之间的联系，以及这些过程与故事一致的态度、社会分享意图和行为之间的联系。在故事曝光之前，我们通过正面和负面的评论来操纵运输。与理论一致，在两个实验中，我们发现交通运输与情绪变化的数量和强度呈正相关。交通尤其与情感层面的态度有关。在实验1中，情绪转移与态度无关，而在实验2中，情绪转移与情感态度和社会分享意向相关。我们进一步讨论了有效性的情绪转移测量通过自我探究的回顾根据提出的研究结果。

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来源期刊

Media Psychology Multiple-

CiteScore

8.60

自引率

7.10%

发文量

期刊介绍： Media Psychology is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to publishing theoretically-oriented empirical research that is at the intersection of psychology and media communication. These topics include media uses, processes, and effects. Such research is already well represented in mainstream journals in psychology and communication, but its publication is dispersed across many sources. Therefore, scholars working on common issues and problems in various disciplines often cannot fully utilize the contributions of kindred spirits in cognate disciplines.