Abstract:Although spoilers are commonly believed to ruin the experience of a story, recent research has produced conflicting results about the role spoilers play in enjoyment. In response, scholars have begun to explore factors that impact the relationship between spoilers and the narrative experience. A series of three studies were conducted to investigate the relationship between spoilers and processing fluency by examining how expectations regarding a narrative's ending can interact with spoilers to affect fluency a… Show more
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