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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Narrative Comprehension
  • Psycholinguistics

Background:

  • Readers construct mental representations of fictional characters' emotional states.
  • Understanding these states involves activating relevant knowledge and mapping narrative information.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the distinct roles of knowledge activation and sentence mapping in representing fictional characters' emotions.
  • To determine how story content influences emotional knowledge activation.

Main Methods:

  • Participants read stories with manipulated emotional content and target sentences with emotion words.
  • Experiment 1 used a density manipulation to isolate knowledge activation.
  • Experiment 2 employed a proportionality manipulation to rule out strategy-based effects.

Main Results:

  • Reading more emotional stories led to broader activation of emotional knowledge.
  • Sentence mapping ease was influenced by the match between story-implied emotions and target emotion words.
  • Results were not attributable to participant strategies.

Conclusions:

  • Knowledge activation and sentence mapping are key processes in understanding fictional characters' emotions.
  • The amount of emotional content in a narrative influences the extent of knowledge activation.