Creer Sarah D, Cook Anne E, O'Brien Edward J
1 Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA.
2 Department of Educational Psychology, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2019 May;72(5):1055-1067. doi: 10.1177/1747021818779496. Epub 2018 Jun 5.
Readers do not always adopt the perspective of the protagonist; however, they will under certain conditions. Experiments 1a and 1b showed that readers will take the perspective of the protagonist from the third-person point of view, but only when explicitly instructed to do so. Experiment 2 demonstrated that reading from the first-person point of view is a text-based manipulation that encourages readers to adopt the perspective of the protagonist. The results of Experiments 3a and 3b replicated the findings of Experiments 1a and 2. Experiment 4 established that simply increasing readers' attention to the text does not lead to adoption of the protagonist's perspective; moreover, this suggests that when it does occur, protagonist perspective adoption is not the result of increased attention, but strategic processing.
读者并不总是采取主人公的视角;然而,在某些情况下他们会这样做。实验1a和1b表明,读者会从第三人称视角采取主人公的视角,但前提是明确被指示这样做。实验2表明,从第一人称视角阅读是一种基于文本的操作,它鼓励读者采取主人公的视角。实验3a和3b的结果重复了实验1a和2的发现。实验4确定,仅仅提高读者对文本的关注度并不会导致采取主人公的视角;此外,这表明当这种情况发生时,采取主人公视角并非是关注度提高的结果,而是策略性加工的结果。