Emotions & Media (7)

Affective Disposition Theory: How audience members form ___ with characters, how this leads to ___ about those characters and how this leads to differing leves of ____

Media-Mediated Empathy: ___ towards media figures

AD: enjoyment increases the more ___ characters experience positive situtaions and ___ characters negative situations

AD: enjoyment decreases when ___ and ___ do not match

AD factors: 1. Dispositional component; disposition towards media characters, vary in ___ and ___

AD factors: 2. Emotional Reaction; emotional reactions to the events in the narrative, forming of ___ and ___

AD factors: 3. Response to outcome; most often focus on ___, vary in ___ and ___

AD: Research on 1. effects of various audience member ___ on the development of ___

AD: Research on 2. preexisting cognitive structures that might affect the ___and maintenance of ___ towards characters

AD: Research on 3. what about non-mainstream characters like ___?

AD: Research on 4. what other variables might lead to increase or decrease in media ___

AD Classic Study (Sensing Heroes and Villains: Character-Schema and the Disposition Formation Process): 1. Manipulation of a virtual character's ___ matching either hero or villain schemas, 2. Viewing villain first vs. viewing hero first, 3. Participants first evaluated character and then read a story in which the character either behaved more or less ___

AD Classic Study DV: person-___ and character ___

AD Classic Study Results: Expectations shade subsequent ___ of a character's behaviors

AD Limitations: not every factor in every area was ___ examined

AD Limitations: suggests that people can only enjoy characters because they have a ___ emotional connection and can expect a ___ --> hardly any enjoyment possible with ___ narratives

Moral Disengagement: tries to explain people's ___ to ___

MD: actions of the protagonist are rationalized as ___, owed to the ___ or serving a ___

MD Mechanisms: ___ justification, advantageous ___, diffusion of ___, attribution of ___

MD Typical Methodology: usually investigated as a ___, i.e. a situational mental ___

MD Classic Study (How players manage moral concerns to make video game violence enjoyable): Participants in interviews talked about their favorite video games and their thoughts on ___ in games

MD Classic Study Results: Identified reasonings include game-reality ___, fighting ___, game violence as ___

MD Limitations: effects may be ___

Excitation Transfer: physiological ___ as a media effect does not necessarily ___ with the "clip", but takes some time to ___

ET: As a result, this residual arousal can affect the subsequent ___ and ___ as it is ___ attributed to the subsequent ___

ET Psycho-physiological explanation: when we are ___ to media content, different levels of the emotional ___ will adapt to new stimuli at different ___; our sympathetic excitement diminishes more ___

ET Typical Methodology: experiments investigating the effect of different kinds of emotional ___ on the emotional ___ of a subsequent emotional ___

ET Classic Study (Image Effects in the Appreciation of Video Rock): Experimental study investigating the effect of ___ content on the ___ of rock-music videos

ET Classic Study: Experimental stimuli were altered ___ watched and rated by participants regarding music, lyrics and visuals

ET Classic Study Results: visuals can affect the ___ of rock music

ET Limitations: process of emotional media experience more ___ than ET hypothesis