The Role of Transportation in the Persuasiveness of Public Narratives.¶
Green, M. C., & Brock, T. C. (2000). The Role of Transportation in the Persuasiveness of Public Narratives. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79(5), 701-721.
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Primes¶
- Narrative Persuasion
- Narrative persuasion is the structural process by which attitude, belief, or intention is shifted in an audience through story-mediated transportation: a narrative artifact draws the audience into its storyworld, identification with characters yields experience-by-proxy, and the storyworld's assumptions are imported wholesale into the audience's working model — all while direct counter-argumentation is suppressed because what is being processed is not a claim-for-evaluation but a world-to-inhabit, the mechanism Green and Brock (2000) introduced as the transportation-imagery model of narrative persuasion.
This sourceFoundational transportation-imagery model: introduces transportation (absorption into a story comprising imagery, affect, and attentional focus) as the mechanism by which narratives shift beliefs; demonstrates experimentally that more deeply transported readers find fewer false notes and import more story-consistent attitudes, while reduced transportation reduces story-consistent belief change.
- Narrative persuasion is the structural process by which attitude, belief, or intention is shifted in an audience through story-mediated transportation: a narrative artifact draws the audience into its storyworld, identification with characters yields experience-by-proxy, and the storyworld's assumptions are imported wholesale into the audience's working model — all while direct counter-argumentation is suppressed because what is being processed is not a claim-for-evaluation but a world-to-inhabit, the mechanism Green and Brock (2000) introduced as the transportation-imagery model of narrative persuasion.
Domain-specific¶
- Suspension of Disbelief
- A recipient can provisionally accept a premise without deep absorption, and can be transported by nonfiction.
This sourcePrimary empirical source for transportation as absorption and for its relation to narrative persuasion.
- A recipient can provisionally accept a premise without deep absorption, and can be transported by nonfiction.
Mechanisms¶
- Narrative Identification Storyboard
- Its strength is narrative transportation
This sourceShows that narrative transportation into a story can shift story-consistent beliefs and evaluations.
- Its strength is narrative transportation
- Narrative Pacing Contrast
- A well-timed compression can make an incremental change feel like a cataclysm — the mechanism trades evidentiary neutrality for dramatic force, and a captured audience is a transported one whose critical scrutiny is lowered
This sourceDefines transportation as absorption into a narrative and finds that more-transported readers show stronger story-consistent persuasion and fewer negative cognitive responses.
- A well-timed compression can make an incremental change feel like a cataclysm — the mechanism trades evidentiary neutrality for dramatic force, and a captured audience is a transported one whose critical scrutiny is lowered
- Story A/B Interpretation Test
- Its strength is catching the misreadings, reactance, and trust damage the authors are structurally blind to, and distinguishing transportation from persuasion — a version can absorb an audience without shifting them, or shift them without being trusted, and only measurement tells them apart.
This sourceOperationalizes transportation into a narrative world as a measurable construct distinct from the belief and evaluation outcomes associated with a story.
- Its strength is catching the misreadings, reactance, and trust damage the authors are structurally blind to, and distinguishing transportation from persuasion — a version can absorb an audience without shifting them, or shift them without being trusted, and only measurement tells them apart.
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