Readers' Trait-Based Models of Characters in Narrative Comprehension☆

By David N. Rapp, Richard Gerrig, Deborah A. Prentice. 2001

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Mental Models: Theoretical Issues for Visualizations in Science Education (2005, background): “Readers similarly track information about time (e.g., Rapp & Gerrig, 2002; Zwaan, 1996), causality (e.g., van den Broek, 1988; van den Broek & Trabasso, 1986), and characters (e.g., Gernsbacher, Hallada, & Robertson, 1998; Rapp et al., 2001 ).”
What You Read Matters: The Role of Fiction Genre in Predicting Interpersonal Sensitivity (2013, background): “…Bailis, 1997), how reading can shape our self-perceptions (Gabriel & Young, 2011) and our abilities (Appel, 2011), how readers represent characters (Rapp & Gerrig, 2001) and their perspectives (Özyürek & Trabasso, 1997), and how individual characteristics of readers can influence their engagement…”
Bookworms versus nerds: Exposure to fiction versus non-fiction, divergent associations with social ability, and the simulation of fictional social worlds (2006, background): “Further, readers appear to create models of the characters they read about, and readily update these representations as new information becomes available ( Rapp, Gerrig, & Prentice, 2001 ); a similar process likely occurs during encounters with individuals in the real-world (Read & Miller, 1993).”
Better you than I: Perspectives and emotion simulation during narrative comprehension (2011, background): “…of characters’ emotional states during narrative comprehension is a relatively understudied topic, though a variety of studies have demonstrated that readers track (but do not necessarily internalise) characters’ emotional states and traits (e.g., de Vega et al., 1996; Rapp et al., 2001).”
Imagine all the people: how the brain creates and uses personality models to predict behavior. (2014, methodology): “The corresponding t-value map (computed with correct trial labels) was cut off below that value (t-value thresholds: 4.28, 2.82, 3.32 for agreeableness, extraversion, and protagonists classifications, respectively) yielding results significant at P < 0.05 corrected for multiple comparisons.”
Integrating Memory-Based and Constructionist Processes in Accounts of Reading Comprehension (2005, unknown): “In text comprehension, expectations or preferences on the part of the reader must interact with the actual words being perceived (e.g., Rapp et al., 2001); top-down processing is affected directly by bottom-up processing.”