October 2024
Beginner to intermediate
716 pages
28h 45m
English
In this chapter, we provide an overview of research on narratives (stories), with a primary focus on entertainment media. We define narratives as descriptions of a series of events that typically include characters, a temporal flow (events taking place over time), and causality (events linked in a cause-and-effect sequence). First, we describe the psychological processes that occur when an individual is reading or watching a narrative. In particular, we focus on narrative engagement processes such as transportation into narrative worlds and character identification. We also provide an overview ...
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