Exploring the role of meaningful experiences in users’ appreciation of “good movies”

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Emotional Gratification in Entertainment Experience. Why Viewers of Movies and Television Series Find it Rewarding to Experience Emotions (2012, background): “Recent work of Oliver et al. (2009; Oliver & Hartmann, 2010) suggests that reflective entertainment experiences are often associated with mixed emotions of both positive and negative valence, which might explain the inconsistent findings that were obtained by Oliver and Bartsch (2010) using basic…”
Elevation in Response to Entertainment Portrayals of Moral Virtue (2012, methodology): “Upon logging into the questionnaire, participants were randomly assigned to name and rate their responses to either a film that they found particularly pleasurable (n = 221) or a film that they found particularly meaningful (n = 262) (see Oliver & Hartmann, 2010).”