@article{2019:naab:hero_or_vi,
title = {Hero or villain? The role of audience beliefs about suspense for their suspense experience},
year = {2019},
note = {The aim of our paper is to examine the role of recipients’ general
media beliefs about suspense during a specific experience of suspense,
thereby contributing to a more complete explanation of suspense. The
audience can be expected to have formed their own beliefs about
suspense based on their own viewing or reading experiences and genre
knowledge. While these cognitions about suspense have been theorized
to influence the specific viewing or reading experience, their
empirical investigation has largely been neglected. Two studies were
conducted to address this gap. Study 1 explores audience members’
media beliefs about suspense using in-depth interviews. Study 2
develops a scale of media beliefs about suspense based on the results
of study 1 and investigates their influence on audience members’
suspense experience. Our results provide valuable evidence that
audience members’ media beliefs about suspense are a reasonable
influence on their suspense experience.},
journal = {SCM Studies in Communication and Media},
pages = {53--76},
author = {Naab, Thorsten and Sukalla, Freya},
volume = {8},
number = {1}
}