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Mood management through communication choices.
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This article is published in American Behavioral Scientist.The article was published on 1988-01-01. It has received 546 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mood management theory & Nonverbal communication.read more
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Understanding Media Enjoyment: The Role of Transportation Into Narrative Worlds
TL;DR: Transportation into a narrative world is an experience of cognitive, emotional, and imagery involvement in a narrative as discussed by the authors, and it can benefit from the experience of being immersed in a narrated world, as well as from the consequences of that immersion.
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Enjoyment: At the Heart of Media Entertainment
TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual model that is centered around enjoyment as the core of entertainment, and that addresses prerequisites of enjoyment which have to be met by the individual media user and by the given media product is presented.
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Who plays, how much, and why? Debunking the stereotypical gamer profile
TL;DR: This study is the first to collect a combination of survey and behavioral data with the cooperation of a major virtual world operator, and the results defy common stereotypes in surprising and interesting ways and have implications for communication theory and for future investigations of games.
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The role of music in adolescents' mood regulation:
Suvi Saarikallio,Jaakko Erkkilä +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the role of music in adolescents' mood regulation was investigated through an inductive theory construction, which resulted in a theoretical model which describes mood regulation by music as a process of satisfying personal mood-related goals through various musical activities.
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Appreciation as Audience Response: Exploring Entertainment Gratifications beyond Hedonism.
Mary Beth Oliver,Anne Bartsch +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the notion of media enjoyment in the context of film viewing is discussed, with a special focus on the domain of more serious, poignant, and pensive media experiences typically associated with genres such as drama, history, documentary, or art films.
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