Moral Judgment and Crime Drama: An Integrated Theory of Enjoyment

By Arthur A. Raney, J. Bryant. 2002

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science

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Media Enjoyment as Need Satisfaction: The Contribution of Hedonic and Nonhedonic Needs (2011, background): “For example, the need for arousal regulation is a central component in mood management theory (Zillmann & Bryant, 1985) and the need for retributive justice is an important consideration for disposition theory (Raney & Bryant, 2002).”
It’s okay to shoot a character: Moral disengagement in violent video games (2010, background): “According to both theories, characters are disliked if they display immoral behavior (Raney & Bryant, 2002).”
Need Satisfaction Supportive Game Features as Motivational Determinants: An Experimental Study of a Self-Determination Theory Guided Exergame (2012, background): “Media scholars have defined enjoyment as an emotion ( Vorderer, Klimmt, & Ritterfeld, 2004 ), an attitude ( Nabi & Krcmar, 2004 ), or a combination of cognition and affect ( Raney & Bryant, 2002 ).”
Some Like It Bad: Testing a Model for Perceiving and Experiencing Fictional Characters (2005, methodology): “Our contribution was to integrate various existing theories with an extension of disposition-based theories (e.g., Raney & Bryant, 2002; Zillmann, 1994; Zillmann & Cantor, 1977) to arrive at a systematic psychological model of character engagement.”
Enjoyment of Mediated Fright and Violence: A Meta-Analysis (2005, background): “…explain audiences’ enjoyment of many forms of entertainment, including humor, sports, and drama, relatively few empirical investigations have applied this perspective to enjoyment of fright and violence (e.g., Hoffner & Cantor, 1991a; King, 2000; Oliver, 1993a; Raney, 2002; Raney & Bryant, 2002).”
Emotional Gratification in Entertainment Experience. Why Viewers of Movies and Television Series Find it Rewarding to Experience Emotions (2012, background): “Across a variety of genres, research has supported the assumption that viewers experience the greatest level of positive affect and enjoyment when the portrayed outcomes are perceived as just or correct (for an overview, see Raney & Bryant, 2002).”
The Use of Media Entertainment and Emotional Gratification (2010, background): “Across a variety of genres, research has supported the assumption that viewers experience the greatest level of enjoyment when the portrayed outcomes are perceived as just or correct (Raney & Bryant, 2002; Weber, Tamborini, Lee & Stipp, 2008; Zillmann & Cantor, 1977).”
Agenda-Setting and Priming in Prime Time Television: Crime Dramas as Political Cues (2005, background): “Raney and Bryant (2002) argue that crime dramas, to a program, rely on formulaic plotlines featuring episodes of violence and stress the legal consequences of perpetrating violent crime.”
The Face of Crime: Viewers' Memory of Race‐Related Facial Features of Individuals Pictured in the News (2004, background): “…their findings as suggesting that the patterns of racial portrayals commonly depicted in this genre may be particularly enjoyed by prejudiced viewers who might take delight in seeing African Americans caught, and presumably punished, for criminal behaviors (see also Raney & Bryant, 2002).”
Fictional Narratives Cultivate Just‐World Beliefs (2008, background): “…1984) and the affective disposition theory by Zillmann and colleagues (Zillmann, 1991; Zillmann & Cantor, 1976), the liking (appreciation or enjoyment) of a story depends on whether the outcome is perceived as just or unjust (see also Raney, 2005, and Raney & Bryant, 2002, for a recent conception).”
Moral Judgment as a Predictor of Enjoyment of Crime Drama (2002, methodology): “The current work serves as a further examination of the Raney and Bryant (2002) model.”
Defining Media Enjoyment as the Satisfaction of Intrinsic Needs (2010, background): “Disposition theory explains how basal morality leads us to seek justice restoration, a behavior that can be linked to the satisfaction of safety needs (cf. Raney & Bryant, 2002).”
Enjoyment of films as a function of narrative experience, perceived realism and transportability (2011, background): “ing experience to make judgments about enjoyment; both cognitive and affective reactions to media content contribute to enjoyment (Nabi and Krcmar, 2004; Raney, 2003; Raney and Bryant, 2002).”