How Moral Expectancy Violations Influence Audiences’ Affective Dispositions Toward Characters
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DOI: 10.1177/00936502211039959
Abstract: Affective disposition theory (ADT) explains that the moral judgments of character behavior inform dispositions toward characters. These dispositions bias moral judgments of characters’ subsequent behaviors and establish behavioral expectations. We used expectancy violations theory to… read more here.
Keywords: characters moral; disposition; expectancy violations; toward characters ... See more keywords