Children’s emotional ond cognitive responses to factual and fictional television programs depicting family conflict were investigated. 97 third and fourth graders saw one of three 15min versions of the same content: documentary, drama, or realistic drama. Self-reports of emotion and facial expressions varied with the content portrayed, and emotions were similar to those perceived for the people...

This research empirically tests whether using a fictional narrative produces a greater impact on health-related knowledge, attitudes, and behavioral intention than presenting the identical information in a more traditional, nonfiction, non-narrative format. European American, Mexican American, and African American women (N = 758) were surveyed before and after viewing either a narrative or non-...

This study focuses on personality prediction of protagonists in novels based on the Five-Factor Model of personality. We present and publish a novel collaboratively built dataset of fictional character personality and design our task as a text classification problem. We incorporate a range of semantic features, including WordNet and VerbNet sense-level information and word vector representation...

A young doctor with an HIV-positive lover; a teen victim of sexual violence; a battered wife; a man who has recently discovered his homosexuality and is suffering the stigma of a machista society...these are just some of the characters who have populated prime-time Cuban TV serials over the last few years. These shows are seen by millions across the country, a cultural phenomenon unrivalled in ...

I Much of what I write these days is an elaboration of Alan Palmer’s argument that “novel reading is mind-reading.” Here, too, I take up one aspect of that argument and consider it in light of my recent experience of studying fiction in a lab with fMRI equipment. (Well, not really—we are actually very far from approaching actual works of literature with brain imaging technology—but as close as ...

Inspired by the Oxford Children's Corpus, we have developed a prototype corpus of Arabic texts written and/or selected for children. Our Arabic Children's Corpus of 2950 documents and nearly 2 million words has been collected manually from the web during a 3month project. It is of high quality, and contains a range of different children's genres based on sources located, including classic tales...