Young children learn words from a variety of situations, including shared storybook reading.
A recent study by Horst et al. demonstrates that children learned more new words during …

The eighth edition of this text remains an indispensable resource for mass communication
psychology and media effects courses. This book gives readers an in-depth understanding …

What psychological mechanisms underlie aesthetic judgements? An influential account
known as the Hedonic Marking of Fluency, later developed into a Processing Fluency …

We model demand for noninstrumental information, drawing on the idea that people derive
entertainment utility from suspense and surprise. A period has more suspense if the …

Seven studies covering diverse contexts show an underappreciated benefit of teasing in
information acquisition: first creating and then resolving an uncertainty can generate a net …

The study of ignorance, or agnotology, has many similarities with studies of absence. This
paper outlines a framework for agnotology which is shaped by interdisciplinary studies of …

A sizable portion of online movie reviews contain spoilers, defined as information that
prematurely resolves plot uncertainty. In this research, the authors study the consequences …

Reading the same storybooks repeatedly helps preschool children learn words. In addition,
slee** shortly after learning also facilitates memory consolidation and aids learning in …

In an era of unprecedented consumer access to media and the tools to control narrative
delivery, speed, and exposure to transmedia content, there is no longer the illusion of a …

Why do some surprises delight—the endings of Agatha Christie novels, films like The Sixth
Sense, the flash awareness that Pip's benefactor is not (and never was!) Miss Havisham …