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The paradox of fiction: Emotional response toward fiction and the modulatory role of self-relevance
Sperduti, M., Arcangeli, M., Makowski, D., Wantzen, P., Zalla, T., Lemaire, S., Dokic, J., Pelletier, J., & Piolino, P.
Acta Psychologica, 2016
People are moved by events they know never happened. This study varies whether the same material is taken to be real or fictional, and finds the emotional response modulated by how self-relevant the scenario is rather than by its reality status alone.
Keywords: Fiction · Emotion Regulation · Reality Beliefs · Self-Reference
Cite
Sperduti, M., Arcangeli, M., Makowski, D., Wantzen, P., Zalla, T., Lemaire, S., Dokic, J., Pelletier, J., & Piolino, P. (2016). The paradox of fiction: Emotional response toward fiction and the modulatory role of self-relevance. Acta Psychologica. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.ACTPSY.2016.02.003
See also
- Cognitive neuropsychology of implicit emotion regulation through fictional reappraisal — Makowski, D. (2018)
- Phenomenal, bodily and brain correlates of fictional reappraisal as an implicit emotion regulation strategy — Makowski, D., Sperduti, M., Pelletier, J., Blondé, P., La Corte, V., Arcangeli, M., Zalla, T., Lemaire, S., Dokic, J., Nicolas, S., & Piolino, P. (2019)
- The distinctive role of executive functions in implicit emotion regulation — Sperduti, M., Makowski, D., Arcangeli, M., Wantzen, P., Zalla, T., Lemaire, S., Dokic, J., Pelletier, J., & Piolino, P. (2017)
