When Bad Things Happen to Bad People: Using Disposition Theory to Explore the Effects of Cautionary Tales

References

• Bae, H. (2008). Entertainment-education and recruitment of cornea donors: The role of emotion and issue involvement. Journal of Health Communication, 13, 20–36.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bandura, A. (1986). Social foundations of thought and action: A social cognitive theory. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
   Google Scholar
• Bandura, A. (2009). Social cognitive theory of mass communication. In J. Bryant & M. B. Oliver (Eds.), Media effects: Advances in theory and research (3rd ed., pp. 94–124). New York, NY: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Baron, R. M. & Kenny, D. A. (1986). The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic and statistical considerations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51, 1173–1182.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Boon, S. D. & Lomore, C. D. (2001). Admirer-celebrity relationships among young adults: Explaining perceptions of celebrity influence on identity. Human Communication Research, 27, 432–465.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Brock, T. C., Strange, J. J. & Green, M. C. (2002). Power beyond reckoning. In M. C. Green J. J. Strange & T. C. Brock (Eds.), Narrative impact: Social and cognitive foundations (pp. 1–16). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
   Google Scholar
• Brodie, M. & Foehr, U. (2001). Communicating health information through the entertainment media. Health Affairs, 20, 192–200.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Busselle, R. & Bilandzic, H. (2009). Measuring narrative engagement. Media Psychology, 12, 321–347.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cohen, J. (2001). Defining identification: A theoretical look at the identification of audiences with media characters. Mass Communication and Society, 4, 245–264.
   Google Scholar
• Collins, R. L., Elliott, M. N., Berry, S. H., Kanouse, D. E. & Hunter, S. B. (2003). Entertainment television as a healthy sex educator: The impact of condom-efficacy information in an episode of Friends. Pediatrics, 112, 1115–1121.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Floyd, D. L., Prentice-Dunn, S. & Rogers, R. W. (2000). A meta-analysis of research done on protection motivation theory. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 30, 407–429.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Green, M. (2006). Narratives and cancer communication. Journal of Communication, 56, 163–183.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hayes, A. F. (2009). Beyond Baron and Kenny: Statistical mediation analysis in the new millennium. Communication Monographs, 76, 408–420.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lachlan, K. A. & Tamborini, R. (2008). The effect of perpetrator motive and dispositional attributes on enjoyment of television violence and attitudes toward victims. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 52, 136–152.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Milne, S., Sheeran, P. & Orbell, S. (2000). Prediction and intervention in health-related behavior: A meta-analytic review of protection motivation theory. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 30, 106–143.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Morgan, S. E., Movius, L. & Cody, M. J. (2009). The power of narratives: The effect of entertainment television organ donation storylines on the attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors of donors and nondonors. Journal of Communication, 59, 135–151.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Moyer-Guse, E. (2008). Toward a theory of entertainment persuasion: Explaining the persuasive effects of entertainment-education messages. Communication Theory, 18, 407–425.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Moyer-Guse, E., Chung, A. H. & Jain, P. (2011). Identification with characters and discussion of taboo topics after exposure to an entertainment narrative about sexual health. Journal of Communication, 61, 387–406.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Moyer-Guse, E. & Nabi, R. L. (2010). Explaining the effects of narrative in an entertainment television program: Overcoming resistance to persuasion. Human Communication Research, 36, 26–52.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Murphy, S. T., Frank, L. B., Moran, M. B. & Patnoe-Woodley, P. (2011). Involved, transported, or emotional? Exploring the determinants of change in knowledge, attitudes, and behavior in entertainment-education. Journal of Communication, 61, 407–431.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Murray, S. (1999). Saving our so-called lives: Girl fandom, adolescent subjectivity, and My So-Called Life. In M. Kinder (Ed.), Kids’ media culture (pp. 221–235). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Nariman, H. N. (1993). Soap operas for social change: Toward a methodology for entertainment-education television. West Port, CT: Praeger.
   Google Scholar
• National Campaign to Prevent Teen & Unplanned Pregnancy. (2008, April). Starr Manning's one life to live. Campaign Update: Newsletter for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, p. 4. Washington, DC: Author. Retrieved from http://thenationalcampaign.org
   Google Scholar
• Preacher, K. J. & Hayes, A. F. (2004). SPSS and SAS procedures for estimating indirect effects in simple mediation models. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 36, 717–731.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Raney, A. A. (2002). Moral judgment as a predictor of enjoyment of crime drama. Media Psychology, 4, 305–322.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Raney, A. A. (2003). Disposition-based theories of enjoyment. In J. Bryant J. Cantor & D. Roskos-Ewoldsen (Eds.), Communication and emotions: Essays in honor of Dolf Zillmann (pp. 61–84). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
   Google Scholar
• Raney, A. A. (2004). Expanding disposition theory: Reconsidering character liking, moral evaluations, and enjoyment. Communication Theory, 14, 348–369.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Raney, A. A. (2005). Punishing media criminals and moral judgment: The impact on enjoyment. Media Psychology, 7, 145–163.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rorty, A. O. (1992). The psychology of Aristotelian tragedy. In A. O. Rorty (Ed.), Essays on Aristotle's poetics (pp. 1–22). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Sherry, J. L. (2002). Media saturation and entertainment-education. Communication Theory, 12, 206–224.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Singhal, A., Cody, M. J., Rogers, E. M. & Sabido, M. (2004). Entertainment-education and social change: History, research, and practice. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
   Google Scholar
• Singhal, A. & Rogers, E. M. (1999). Entertainment-education: A communication strategy for social change. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
   Google Scholar
• Singhal, A. & Rogers, E. M. (2002). A theoretical agenda for entertainment-education. Communication Theory, 12, 117–135.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Slater, M. D. (2002). Entertainment education and the persuasive impact of narratives. In M. C. Green J. J. Strange & T. C. Brock (Eds.), Narrative impact: Social and cognitive foundations (pp. 57–182). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
   Google Scholar
• Slater, M. D. & Rouner, D. (2002). Entertainment-education and elaboration likelihood: Understanding the process of narrative persuasion. Communication Theory, 12, 173–191.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sobel, M. E. (1982). Asymptotic confidence intervals for indirect effects in structural equation models. In S. Leinhardt (Ed.), Sociological methodology (pp. 209–212). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
   Google Scholar
• Sood, S., Menard, T. & Witte, K. (2004). The theory behind entertainment-education. In A. Singhal M. J. Cody E. M. Rogers & M. Sabido (Eds.), Entertainment-education and social change: History, research, and practice (pp.117–145). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
   Google Scholar
• Weber, R., Tamborini, R., Lee, H. E. & Stipp, H. (2008). Soap opera exposure and enjoyment: A longitudinal test of disposition theory. Media Psychology, 11, 462–487.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Witte, K. & Allen, M. (2000). A meta-analysis of fear appeals: Implications for effective public health campaigns. Health Education & Behavior, 27, 591–615.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Zillmann, D. (2000). Basal morality in drama appreciation. In I. Bondebjerg (Ed.), Moving images, culture, and the mind (pp. 53–63). Luton, England: University of Luton Press.
   Google Scholar