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There were three conditions, the control had no manipulation, the negative condition was presented with a narrative where the protagonist had a pessimistic outlook for their condition, and the positive condition was similar but with an optimistic outlook. The Organ Donation Attitude Scale (ODAS) replicated the original study’ findings that the positive and negative conditions did not differ in effectiveness, but only the negative condition was significantly different from the control. Galileo methods did not find significant differences between any of the conditions when comparing organ donor and intention to sign organ donor card with yourself. However, further analysis correlating all of the ODAS items to Organ Donor – Yourself/Good/Bad and Intention to sign Donor Card – Yourself/Good/Bad showed 32 significant correlations in the negative condition to the 8 significant correlations in the positive condition and no significant correlations in the control. Additional measures like the transportation scale, narrative engagement, and identification were included to confirm that the belief and attitude changes involved the cognitive processing style typically seen during a narrative experience. Finally, Galileo method concept pairs were explored for possible correlations with identifications items to attempt and observe a constituent mechanism of identification."]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["application/pdf"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["Measuring Narrative Persuasion"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor":["Woelfel, Joseph","Communication"],"dc:creator":["Lin, Jeffrey"],"dc:date":["2019-07-30T15:11:25Z","2019","2019-05-15 19:39:33"],"dc:description":["M.A.","Narrative persuasion has received a large amount of interest from researchers in the social sciences. This study tested if Galileo methods is an effective instrument for finding attitude and belief changes caused by narrative persuasion. 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