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Embracing nonfiction: How to extend the Distancing-Embracing model
Deena Skolnick Weisberg1, Stacie Friend2
1Department of Psychology,Levin Building,University of Pennsylvania,Philadelphia,PA 19104.deena.weisberg@psych.upenn.eduhttps://www.sas.upenn.edu/~deenas/.
The Behavioral and Brain Sciences
|January 19, 2018
Summary
Consumers
Area of Science:
- Consumer psychology
- Media psychology
Background:
- Menninghaus et al.'s model proposes a "Distancing" factor involving fictionality schemas.
- This factor is claimed to be crucial for the "Embracing" factor of their model.
Purpose of the Study:
- To challenge the necessity of fictionality schemas in Menninghaus et al.'s model.
- To propose an expansion of the model to encompass responses to nonfictional representations.
Main Methods:
- Conceptual analysis of existing theoretical models.
- Argumentation based on psychological principles of consumer response.
Main Results:
- Consumers can exhibit similar responses to both fictional and nonfictional representations.
- The "Distancing" factor's reliance on fictionality may be too narrow.
Conclusions:
- Menninghaus et al.'s model should be revised to include nonfictional contexts.
- Consumer responses to media are not solely dependent on perceived fictionality.
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