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Some like it bad: testing a model on perceiving and experiencing fictional characters
We developed an encompassing theory that explains how readers of fiction and spectators of motion pictures establish affective relationships with fictional characters (FCs). The perceiving and experiencing fictional characters (PEFiC) theory is anchored in art perception, psychological aesthetics, and social and emotion psychology and addresses both the complexity and intrinsic affectivity involved in media exposure. In a between-subject design (N = 312), engagement and appreciation were measured as a function of the ethics (good vs. bad), aesthetics (beautiful vs. ugly), and epistemics (realistic vs. unrealistic) of eight protagonists in feature movies. The PEFiC model best fit the data with a unipolarity of factors and outperformed traditional theories (identification, empathy): The trade-off between involvement and distance explained the appreciation of FCs better than either distance or involvement alone. The mediators similarity, relevance, and valence exerted significant (interaction) effects, thus complicating the results. Furthermore, the effects of mediated bad persons differed strongly from ethically good ones. Copyright ยฉ 2005, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc
Adult Romantic Attachment: Theoretical Developments, Emerging Controversies, and Unanswered Questions
Early School Outcomes for Children of Postpartum Depressed Mothers: Comparison with a Community Sample
The Effects of Group Art Therapy on Self-resilience of Children without Disability Who Have Siblings with Disability
The Effect of Resilience in Career Decision-Making among Specialized Technical High School Students
Hermeneutic Phenomenological Understanding on Lived Experience of Art Therapists' Self-Care through Art-Making
Adult Attachment and Preemptive Defenses: Converging Evidence on the Role of Defensive Exclusion at the Level of Encoding
The Study on Mother-in-Law's Relationship Satisfaction between Mother-in-Law and Son-in-Law
The Relationship between the Physical Self-Concept of the Students Majoring in Dance and the Self-Resilience and Dance Ability Achievement
The Draw-A-Story(DAS) Response Characteristics by Posttraumatic Stress and Ego-Resilience of Subway Drivers Experiencing an Accident
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