Fiction reading and sexism: Exploring the effects of fiction reading and transportation on sexist attitudes

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Fiction reading and sexism: Exploring the effects of fiction reading and transportation on sexist attitudes

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University of Otago

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It has long been suspected that stories are a powerful method of persuasion. Now, research is emerging that supports these suspicions, that reading fiction can change people’s attitudes. Specifically, being immersed in a narrative, also known as being transported, has been proposed as a conditional mechanism for narrative persuasion. Both transportation and narrative are beginning to be examined as tools for attitude change, particularly with the intention of reducing discriminatory beliefs. ...

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Scholarly text / Thesis

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Doctoral

Date created

2017

Creator

Redman, Kahla

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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/7411

Related subjects

narrative persuasion / fiction reading / transportation / sexism / ambivalent sexism / sexism reduction

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