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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Character Identification"”.
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Player-character identification by personality matching, perceived personalization and positive/negative in-game experience
Player-character identification is that video-game players adopt the perspective of a game character during gameplay as a part of their own identity. Player-character identification can be established through several psychological mechanisms, including perspective taking, presence, idealization, …
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A study to determine degree of inferred story-character identification and its resultant effect in reading comprehension in selected multiethnic reading texts
… to investigate the relationship between inferred identification and two types of reading comprehension, molar and specific, at the third grade level. Subjects for this study were selected from six schools located in four midwestern urban centers. The 121 Negro and Caucasian children who …
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Heartwarming Narratives: The Role of Kama Muta in Stereotype Reduction
… perpetuated through media of non-mainstream characters (or out-group members) such as gay men which leads to harmful stereotypes and discriminatory behavior. Media psychologists have introduced stereotype reduction interventions through parasocial contact and character identification yet …
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Till Death Do Us Part: Analyzing the Impact of Multiple Moral Violations on Parasocial Relationship Boundary Conditions
… viewers' responses to morally ambiguous characters. Utilizing a mixed between-within subjects design, the research explored their impact on moral disengagement, PSRs, character identification, and narrative enjoyment. Findings revealed that person perception of a celebrity significantly …
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Loneliness, Creation and Communication in Carlos Rojas
… the first chapter I will discuss the question of character identification and communication. Within these novels, the characters come to realise that communication with others must be preceeded by ..confrontation with the self. Rojas is as convinced of this truth as his characters. For in this way …
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Lovable lamps and sad umbrellas : empathizing with inanimate objects in animated films.
Why do people empathize with movie characters who aren't human beings? What causes viewers to perceive inanimate objects as people, such as the hopping lamp in Pixar's Luxo Jr.? These questions are under-researched in scholarly literature. Thus, this study used an original, animated video as a …