Entertainment is Emotion: The Functional Architecture of the Entertainment Experience

By E. Tan. 2008

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Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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2. T. Connolly
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Citations in the corpus

• Engagement in digital entertainment games: A systematic review (2012, background): “In a detailed theoretical analysis of interest, Tan (2008) argued that the experience of boredom (the distal reason) will set in train behaviours which will be experienced as interest.”