The Effect of Narrative News Format on Empathy for Stigmatized Groups

By Mary Beth Oliver, James Price Dillard, Keunmin Bae, D. Tamul. 2012

267 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/d2b66f526c55d6164d9d069c8ea420987e397b7f

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In Gender Studies

1. Sheila T. Murphy
2. K. Folb
3. Jeremy N. Bailenson
4. Jamil Zaki
5. Traci K. Gillig
6. E. Rosenthal

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. Sheila T. Murphy
2. Jeremy N. Bailenson
3. Jamil Zaki

In Social Psychology

1. Sheila T. Murphy
2. K. Folb
3. Fernanda Herrera
4. Elise Ogle
5. Jeremy N. Bailenson
6. Jamil Zaki
7. Traci K. Gillig
8. Erika Weisz

Citations in the corpus

• More than a Media Moment: The Influence of Televised Storylines on Viewers’ Attitudes toward Transgender People and Policies (2017, background): “In some cases, narratives have been shown to improve people’s attitudes toward stigmatized groups (Oliver et al. 2012).”
• Building long-term empathy: A large-scale comparison of traditional and virtual reality perspective-taking (2018, background): “Oliver and colleagues [28] highlight that the way in 126 which information is formatted affects reader’s empathic responses, and found that information 127 formatted as a narrative elicited more empathic responses from readers than fact-driven stories.”