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This is a study conducted as two online experiments to examine the impact of narrative discourse structure on target emotions, perceived ease of understanding, narrative engagement, and enjoyment. Narrative events can be reordered to tell a single story in different ways for different emotional effects. Chronologically ordered events in a narrative are more likely to elicit a suspense emotional reaction (Brewer & Lichtenstein, 1982) rather than curiosity, which can be elicited by moving critical information from the beginning to the end of a narrative while hinting at the moved (Brewer & Lichtenstein, 1982) or surprise emotional reactions, which can be elicited by removing critical information from the beginning of a narrative without hinting at any change (Brewer & Lichtenstein, 1982). There is evidence that changing the order of events in a narrative causes an updating of the narrative concept in a person’s mind (Kurby & Zacks, 2012), which may also impact a person’s perceived understanding of the narrative. This experiment will examine if changing the event order in a narrative will impact the emotional reactions that a person will have in response to the narrative and if those emotional reactions and perceived understanding mediate the impact of narrative event order and the experience of enjoyment. |
