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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Copyright 2000 by the American Psychological Association. Inc. 2000, Vol. 79, No. 5, 701-721 0022-3514/00/$ DOI: The Role of Transportation in the Persuasiveness of Public Narratives Melanie C. Green and Timothy C. Brock Ohio State University Transportation was proposed as a mechanism whereby narratives can affect beliefs. Defined as absorp- tion into a story, Transportation entails imagery, affect, and attentional focus. A Transportation scale was developed and validated. Experiment 1 (N = 97) demonstrated that extent of Transportation augmented story-consistent beliefs and favorable evaluations of protagonists. Experiment 2 (N = 69) showed that highly transported readers found fewer false notes in a story than less-transported readers.
Transportation Theory ... "Character is the driving force in fiction" (Surmelian, 1969, p. ... (Fitzgerald, 1925; "second-best English-language novel this cen- tury," Modern Library Editorial Board, 1998) draws readers into a different place: One autumn night.., they had been walking down the street when the ...
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