Choosing and enjoying violence in narratives.

We use an interactive story design in which participants read short stories and make two consecutive plot choices about whether protagonists commit low- or high-violence actions. Our study has four main findings. 1) People who choose high violence report greater satisfaction with the story, while th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Victoria Lagrange, Benjamin Hiskes, Claire Woodward, Binyan Li, Fritz Breithaupt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0226503&type=printable