Media Influence and Health

Modeling Synthetic Audience Reactions to Social-Cognitive Narratives: A Generative GSR Model to Predict Real-World Autonomic Alignment during Film Viewing

The Signal in the Noise: Hierarchy and Robustness of Physiological Audience Alignment during Narrative Media

This study shows that messages align physiological responses across individuals, revealing a hierarchy of alignment from gaze to autonomic responses, and demonstrating content-locked temporal patterns.

Exploring the Neural Processes behind Narrative Engagement: An EEG Study

This study uses EEG to examine how neural activity correlates with self-reported engagement during a narrative structured by a dramatic arc, finding that specific EEG features predict engagement levels.

Neural Synchronization as a Function of Engagement with the Narrative

This study examines if narrative engagement synchronizes brain responses across listeners using fMRI data from a pre-registered analysis of a story listening experiment.

Higher levels of narrativity lead to similar patterns of EEG activity across individuals

This study shows that higher narrativity in videos leads to greater inter-subject neural correlation and engagement across participants.

Dynamic Brain Network States during Suspenseful Film Viewing

This study identifies five brain states during suspenseful film viewing, showing four differ in frequency at suspense peaks compared to valleys.

Measuring narrative engagement: The heart tells the story

This study compares conscious and subconscious engagement with stories presented as audio or video, finding stronger physiological responses to auditory stories.