Linking Epistemic Monitoring to Perceived Realism: the Impact of Story-World Inconsistency on Realism and Engagement

IF 3.4 2区 心理学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Media Psychology Pub Date : 2022-01-31 DOI:10.1080/15213269.2022.2032180
Rick W. Busselle, Tanja Vierrether
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ABSTRACT Discourse comprehension research demonstrates that understanding new information as it arises in a text, requires that readers retrieve information from earlier in the text and from preexisting knowledge brought to the reading experience, known as bridging and elaboration, respectively. Epistemic monitoring may detect inconsistencies that arise during bridging and elaboration, and these inconsistencies may interfere with comprehension and the construction of mental models. The present study links these processes with readers’ perceptions of narrative and external realism. It investigates the influence of inconsistencies – references to modern technologies in written short stories set before those technologies existed – on two types of realism judgments and on five dimensions of narrative engagement. Experimentally introduced inconsistencies designed to interfere with elaboration and, subsequently with the construction of a story world model, reduced perceived external realism and narrative realism. The effect on narrative realism was mediated by external realism. Results further indicate that narrative realism causally preceded imagery production, and that imagery production fully mediated the relation between narrative realism and emotional engagement, and partially mediated the relation between narrative realism and a sense of presence in the story.
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将认知监控与感知现实主义联系起来:故事-世界不一致性对现实主义和参与的影响
摘要语篇理解研究表明,理解文本中出现的新信息,需要读者从文本的早期和为阅读体验带来的先前存在的知识中检索信息,分别称为桥接和阐述。认知监控可能会发现在衔接和阐述过程中出现的不一致,这些不一致可能会干扰理解和心理模型的构建。本研究将这些过程与读者对叙事和外部现实主义的感知联系起来。它调查了不一致性对两种类型的现实主义判断和五个维度的叙事参与的影响。实验性地引入了旨在干扰阐述的不一致性,随后又干扰了故事世界模型的构建,降低了感知到的外部现实主义和叙事现实主义。外部现实主义对叙事现实主义的影响起着中介作用。结果进一步表明,叙事现实主义在意象产生之前具有因果关系,意象产生完全中介了叙事现实主义与情感参与之间的关系,部分中介了叙事真实主义与故事中存在感之间的关系。
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Media Psychology
Media Psychology Multiple-
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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.
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