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suspense: a standalone construct

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Media psychology

an audience's anxious uncertainty about the outcome of a story, heightened when a liked character faces a likely bad outcome.

In media psychology, suspense refers to an audience's anxious uncertainty about the outcome of a story, heightened when a liked character faces a likely bad outcome. This meaning comes from Comisky (1982) in Human Communication Research.[1]

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anomalous suspense1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct audience3 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs character4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Comisky, P., & Bryant, J. (1982). Factors Involved in Generating Suspense. Human Communication Research, 9(1), 49-58. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2958.1982.tb00682.x

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