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Erinn K Walsh¹, Anne E Cook², Edward J O'Brien¹

¹1 Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA.

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Readers struggle with fantasy stories when unrealistic events contradict general world knowledge (GWK). Even with fantasy context, inconsistencies disrupt comprehension, especially when locally presented.

Keywords:

Fantasy narrative RI-Val model validation

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Narrative Comprehension
Literary Theory

Background:

Fantasy narratives routinely feature events that contradict real-world rules.
Understanding how readers process these violations alongside general world knowledge (GWK) is crucial for narrative comprehension research.
The RI-Val model offers a framework for understanding how readers resolve conflicting information.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the cognitive mechanisms underlying comprehension of fantasy narratives.
To examine the impact of real-world impossible events and fantasy-specific violations on reader comprehension.
To explore the role of contextual support and inconsistency level (local vs. global) in processing fantasy texts.

Main Methods:

Four experiments were conducted using extended fantasy narratives.
Participants encountered inconsistencies that were either unrelated to the fantasy genre or specific to the fantasy context.
Inconsistencies were manipulated at local and global levels to assess processing disruption.

Main Results:

Fantasy-unrelated inconsistencies disrupted comprehension, even when the narrative provided context for impossible events.
Fantasy-related inconsistencies caused processing disruption at the local level.
Global-level fantasy-related inconsistencies initially eliminated disruption but led to delayed processing difficulties.

Conclusions:

Reader comprehension of fantasy texts is sensitive to the type and level of inconsistency encountered.
Both general world knowledge (GWK) and fantasy-specific context interact in complex ways during narrative processing.
Findings contribute to the RI-Val model by detailing how readers manage competing information sources in fictional contexts.