Different Routes to Liking: How Readers Arrive at Narrative Evaluations

Autor/inn/en	Mak, Marloes; Faber, Myrthe; Willems, Roel M.
Titel	Different Routes to Liking: How Readers Arrive at Narrative Evaluations
Quelle	In: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 7 (2022), Artikel 72 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Mak, Marloes)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
DOI	10.1186/s41235-022-00419-0
Schlagwörter	Reader Text Relationship; Literature Appreciation; Reader Response; Reading Interests; Reading Attitudes; Individual Differences; Aesthetics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Literarische Wertung; Leserbrief; Leseinteresse; Reading behavior; Rading behaviour; Leseverhalten; Individueller Unterschied; Ästhetik
Abstract	When two people read the same story, they might both end up liking it very much. However, this does not necessarily mean that their reasons for liking it were identical. We therefore ask what factors contribute to "liking" a story, and--most importantly--how people vary in this respect. We found that readers like stories because they find them interesting, amusing, suspenseful and/or beautiful. However, the degree to which these components of appreciation were related to how much readers liked stories differed between individuals. Interestingly, the individual slopes of the relationships between many of the components and liking were (positively or negatively) correlated. This indicated, for instance, that individuals displaying a relatively strong relationship between interest and liking, generally display a relatively weak relationship between sadness and liking. The individual differences in the strengths of the relationships between the components and liking were not related to individual differences in expertize, a characteristic strongly associated with aesthetic appreciation of visual art. Our work illustrates that it is important to take into consideration the fact that individuals differ in how they arrive at their evaluation of literary stories, and that it is possible to quantify these differences in empirical experiments. Our work suggests that future research should be careful about "overfitting" theories of aesthetic appreciation to an "idealized reader," but rather take into consideration variations across individuals in the reason for liking a particular story. (As Provided).
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