The Psychology of Suspense in Dramatic Exposition

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The effects of emotions on football spectators' satisfaction and behavioural intentions (2012, background): “Future research should be extended to other European football leagues and collect data at additional games across the temporal frame of the hedonic experience (Zillmann, 1996).”
Theorizing Development of Parasocial Engagement (2018, background): “Additionally, viewers monitor the characters’ behaviors and evaluate the characters’ actions in terms of their morality using this to form dispositions towards the characters (Zillmann, 1996).”
The Role of a Narrative's Emotional Flow in Promoting Persuasive Outcomes (2015, unknown): “…initial tests of the theoretical predictions involved unrelated stimuli (e.g., arousal from exercise associating with stronger feelings of anger), Zillmann (1996, 2006) is clear that the stimuli do not need to be unrelated, and in fact, he argues that when the stimuli are relevant to one…”
Emotional Gratification in Entertainment Experience. Why Viewers of Movies and Television Series Find it Rewarding to Experience Emotions (2012, background): “The concept of excitation transfer (Zillmann, 1996) explains how negative affect experienced during suspenseful episodes when audiences are made to fear bad outcomes for liked characters can contribute to entertainment gratification, nevertheless.”