Fictional Narratives Cultivate Just‐World Beliefs

By Markus Appel. 2008

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Subfields: Communication, Gender Studies, Literature and Literary Theory

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Reading Narrative Fiction Reduces Arab-Muslim Prejudice and Offers a Safe Haven From Intergroup Anxiety (2013, background): “The narrative is omnipresent in the human experience from its role in cultivating one’s worldview (Appel, 2008) to shaping one’s sense of self across the lifespan (Singer, 2004).”
Different stories: How levels of familiarity with literary and genre fiction relate to mentalizing. (2017, background): “Consistent with this view, a study of TV viewing habits found that watching formulaic genre dramas was positively associated with conventional thinking (Appel, 2008). Other scholars have argued that many, perhaps most, works of fiction tend to present clear protagonists and antagonists who display f”
Transportation and Need for Affect in Narrative Persuasion: A Mediated Moderation Model (2010, methodology): “MODERATOR VARIABLES As in Experiment 1, individual differences in need for affect were assessed with the Need for Affect Questionnaire (Maio & Esses, 2001; for the German adaptation, Appel, 2008b).”
Contributing to Theory and Knowledge in Quantitative Communication Science (2012, background): “An example of the use of a novel dependent measure with important theoretical implications is the study by Appel (2008), who extended cultivation research in an unexpected direction.”
Emotional Gratification in Entertainment Experience. Why Viewers of Movies and Television Series Find it Rewarding to Experience Emotions (2012, background): “Likewise, results of Appel (2008) suggest that the experience of poetic justice in fictional entertainment may serve not only to induce positive affect but also to strengthen individuals’ belief in a just world.”
The Use of Media Entertainment and Emotional Gratification (2010, background): “Studies of experiential states in reading (Appel et al.; 2002) and music reception (Schramm, 2005) found somewhat different, but largely comparable results. Thus, it can be concluded that the experience of emotions can be functional in a number of other ways than just regulating emotions in terms of”
The Influence of Paratext on Narrative Persuasion: Fact, Fiction, or Fake? (2012, methodology): “Persuasive effects of narratives appear to be rather durable and may even increase over time (Appel & Richter, 2007; Jensen, Bernat, Wilson, & Goonwardene, 2011; see also Appel, 2008a).”