Thrilling news revisited: The role of suspense for the enjoyment of news stories

Previous research on news perception has been dominated by a cognitively oriented perspective on reception processes, whereas emotions have been widely neglected. Consequently, it has remained open which features of a news story might elicit affective responses and hence modulate news perception, sh...

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Main Authors: Kai Kaspar, Daniel Zimmermann, Anne-Kathrin Wilbers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01913/full