Moral Judgment and Crime Drama: An Integrated Theory of Enjoyment

Raney, Arthur A.; Bryant, Jennings

doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.2002.tb02552.x

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“…Although no published research has explored motives for viewing programming featuring law and justice themes, several studies have explored the related question of what factors underlie the enjoyment of crime dramas. One predictor of such enjoyment is the perception that justice is served; when crime results in appropriate punishment, enjoyment increases (Raney, 2005;Raney & Jennings, 2002). Although individuals may vary in the degree to which they think an individual outcome on such a program represents justice, the depiction of justice seems to be a key element to the enjoyment of programs of this genre.…”

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Death and Television: Terror Management Theory and Themes of Law and Justice on Television

Taylor

2012

Death Studies

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Based on terror management theory, it was hypothesized that media choices may be affected by the salience of death-related thoughts. Three experiments with samples of undergraduate students were conducted to investigate whether such a process would affect preferences for law and justice television programming. In the first experiment (n = 132), individuals for whom mortality had been made salient through experimental induction preferred more programs with law and justice themes than individuals for whom mortality had not been made salient. In the second experiment (n = 761), this effect was observed regardless of trust in law enforcement and only for participants induced to think about death, not those induced to think about pain. In the third experiment (n = 163), participants for whom mortality was salient who watched a crime drama that showed justice being carried out showed a diminished self-enhancing bias compared to participants who watched a version of the same program in which justice was thwarted. Results indicate that entertainment choices are influenced by thought of death beyond simply seeking distraction and that entertainment programming emphasizing justice can effectively ameliorate existential anxiety that arises from thoughts of death.

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Death and Television: Terror Management Theory and Themes of Law and Justice on Television

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2012

Death Studies

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“…Based on these judgments, positive affect is assumed to occur when "good" characters prevail, and when negative outcomes befall "bad" or disliked characters. Across a variety of genres, research has supported the assumption that viewers experience the greatest level of positive affect and enjoyment when the portrayed outcomes are perceived as just or correct (for an overview, see Raney & Bryant, 2002).…”

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Emotional Gratification in Entertainment Experience. Why Viewers of Movies and Television Series Find it Rewarding to Experience Emotions

2012

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“…Entertainment theory research has found empirical support for the notion that individual differences impact both the experience of narratives and the strategies used to moderate moods (Raney & Bryant, 2002;Zillman, 2000b). argue that, in contrast to the text hegemony hypothesis of canon-oriented literature scholar Bloom (1994), situational factors of reading and individual differences in the reader affect the level of transportation.…”

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Transportation, need for cognition, and affective disposition as factors in enjoyment of film narratives

Owen

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2012

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This article proposes and empirically tests a theoretical model in which need for cognition and affective disposition influence viewers' transportation (absorption in a narrative) which in turn influences enjoyment of the narrative. Using two re-edited versions of the feature film Memento (Nolan, 2000) and the original film as treatments intended to produce varying levels of cognitive challenge, the researchers conducted an experiment with 91 participants. Structural equation modeling analysis results strongly support the model overall; strongly support need for cognition and affective disposition as significant influences on transportation; and strongly support for transportation influencing enjoyment. No significant support was found for the proposed moderating influence of cognitive challenge presented by the narrative on need for cognition or for cognitive challenge as a main influence on transportation.The creation and experience of narratives is a universal human activity, whether as part of the internal process of making sense of one's life, in daily interaction with other people, or through the print and audio-visual communication stream of the media sphere. The experience of the last type, sometimes called public narratives , has been theorized as having both cognitive and affective components (Green, 2008;Owen, 2007;Graesser, Singer, & Trabasso, 1994). The present study proposes and tests a model of factors impacting enjoyment of film narratives, and draws on three strands of media psychology theory and research: transportation theory; narrative discourse psychology; and affective disposition theory.

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Moral Judgment and Crime Drama: An Integrated Theory of Enjoyment

Cited by 151 publications

References 35 publications

Death and Television: Terror Management Theory and Themes of Law and Justice on Television

Death and Television: Terror Management Theory and Themes of Law and Justice on Television

Emotional Gratification in Entertainment Experience. Why Viewers of Movies and Television Series Find it Rewarding to Experience Emotions

Transportation, need for cognition, and affective disposition as factors in enjoyment of film narratives

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