Does it Matter Where You Read? Situating Narrative in Physical Environment
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References
The role of transportation in the persuasiveness of public narratives.
The Rediscovery of the Mind
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Frequently Asked Questions (9)
Q2. What is the main reason why the activity of reading leaves us largely perceptually imp?
The main reason why the activity of reading leaves us largely perceptuallyimpoverished is that vision, the single sensory modality most important to environment exploration, is blocked.
Q3. What is the common and often gratifying thing about the Transportation Scale?
Being so immersed in a narrative as to fail noticing a person entering the roomis one, rather common and often gratifying, thing.
Q4. What is the effect of environmental propping?
In a process of mutual propping, your auditory perception of real water merges with your auditory, visual, or multimodal (Kuzmičová, 2014) mental images of a river plowed by a nineteenth century steamer.
Q5. What is the relationship between interestingness and pleasure?
While interestingness ratings increased linearly with complexity, pleasure was related to complexity by an inverted U-shaped function.
Q6. What is the common misconception about the environment used in narrative response research?
The laboratory environments used in narrative response research are even typically thought of as free from extrinsic stimuli altogether.
Q7. What would be the way to get subjects to read?
For a more naturalistic reading experience, subjects could simply take the narratives to their preferred environmentsthe course of a study.
Q8. What is the role of environment in the study?
As for the particular role of physical environment, The authorhave previously suggested that laboratory settings may be more likely than natural environments to instigate a thin mindset, wherein subjects screen off any aspects of their experience that are not related to the experimenterimposed reading task.
Q9. What would be the natural consequence of adopting an environmentally situated approach to reading?
the most natural consequence of adopting an environmentally situated approach to reading would be to try and move the experiment outside controlled settings altogether.