Cognitive and emotional processing of suspenseful narrative experience: The effect of uncertainty and repeated exposure서스펜스 내러티브 경험의 인지적 감정적 처리과정에 대한 연구: 불확실성과 반복 노출의 효과를 중심으로

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Narrative suspense is a psychological response to watching suspenseful films or reading suspenseful novels. Preceding research supports suspense makes audience immersed in a story and more enjoyable even though suspense causes stressful and aversive responses. The factors generating suspense include uncertainty, discourse structure, threat and conflict toward liked characters, and information disparity between characters and audience. The paradox of suspense is also a controversial issue in that suspense may not be experienced repeatedly because repeated exposure to suspenseful texts will diminish uncertainty of narratives. This dissertation aimed to explore the cognitive and emotional processing of suspenseful narrative experience by adopting psychophysiological methodology measuring electrodermal activity and cardiac response, as well as self-report questionnaires. Three empirical experiments were conducted to investigate the fundamental research questions: the effect of uncertainty and information disparity in suspenseful narratives; the effect of repeated exposure to suspenseful narratives. The results demonstrated repeated exposure to suspenseful film led to habituation and desensitization and negative valence fostered suspense degree. The significance of the study includes contributions to the deeper understanding of the mechanism underlying reception process of suspenseful texts and films as well as the extension toward interdisciplinary research spanning literary, communication, media psychological and psychophysiological approach. The limitations and future works of the study were also discussed.
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Shi, Chungkonresearcher시정곤researcherPark, Byunghoresearcher박병호researcher
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한국과학기술원 :문화기술대학원,
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한국과학기술원
Issue Date
2021
Identifier
325007
Language
eng
Article Type
Thesis(Ph.D)
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http://hdl.handle.net/10203/294541
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http://library.kaist.ac.kr/search/detail/view.do?bibCtrlNo=956565&flag=dissertation
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GCT-Theses_Ph.D.(박사논문)
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