Melanie C Green
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 135696 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Melanie C Green |
| PRENOMES | Melanie C |
| SOBRENOME | Green |
| ASSINATURA | GREEN M C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5469-8470 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 970 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Identity Disclosure Timing Effects in Narratives Related to Transgender Individuals
When striving to promote acceptance of marginalized groups through persuasive narratives, past research suggests that delaying disclosure of a character’s stigmatized identity can facilitate narrative involvement and promote message-consistent outcomes. In the present studies, we apply this strategy to the context of transgender individuals through two experiments that compared narratives which disclosed the protagonist’s identity at different po…
Individual differences in responses to hedonic versus utilitarian advertisements
The current study sought to extend an understanding of how individual differences related to hedonic (pleasure-oriented) purchase goals affect persuasion and ad liking. Specifically, we investigated the effect of differences in consumers’ hedonic versus utilitarian goals and the desire to engage in purchase-related conversations (conversational tendencies) on responses to advertisements with either a hedonic or utilitarian focus. We also examined…
To Pause With a Cliffhanger or a Temporary Closure? The Differential Impact of Serial Versus Episodic Narratives on Children’s Physical Activity Behaviors
Research has supported the effectiveness of narratives for promoting health behavior, but different narrative presentation formats (serial vs. episodic) have seldom been compared. Suspense theories suggest that serial narratives, which do not provide a full resolution at the end of an episode, may create higher motivation for continued engagement with a story. Forty-four 8 to 12-year-old children were randomly assigned to watch an animation serie…
Losing the Plot
Social Media, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Well‐Being
Social media is a powerful societal force, but engagement with these websites can have both positive and negative consequences. Understanding both the risks and benefits of social media is essential for individual and community well‐being. Because the effects of social media can vary by gender, socio‐economic status, and other demographic categories, potential changes in federal policy that limit researchers' ability to study these topics can und…
The effect of animated Sci-Fi characters’ racial presentation on narrative engagement, wishful identification, and physical activity intention among children
Characters play an integral role in animated narratives, but their visual racial presentation has received limited attention. A diverse group of U.S. children watched a 15-min physical activity-promoting animated Sci-Fi narrative. They were randomly assigned to one of three conditions, which varied the lead characters’ racial presentation: realistic racially unambiguous (Original: White children, Black mother), realistic racially ambiguous (Ambig…
Investigating Responses to Narrative Cliffhangers Using Affective Disposition Theory
Despite the prevalence of cliffhangers in popular narrative entertainment, little research has attempted to investigate the impact of these purportedly high-suspense, unresolved narrative endings on audience responses. Guided by affective disposition theory (ADT), in two between-subjects experiments (NStudy 1 = 202; NStudy 2 = 273) we investigated the extent to which audiences reported greater suspense, enjoyment, and desires for a future narrati…
The Effects of Corrective Strategies on Romantic Belief Endorsement
Romantic comedies have long been understood to create unrealistic views of relationships. In the current study, we tested theory-driven corrective strategies for counteracting potentially harmful beliefs about romantic relationships. In an online experiment ( N = 626), participants were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: to a no exposure control, to watch a romantic comedy scene without correction, to read a corrective article before vi…
The Emotional Flow Scale
The dynamics of the emotional experience during message consumption, referred to as emotional flow, is hypothesized to be an important and influential element of message reception processes. In this article, we propose and validate a scale for measuring self-reported experiences of emotional flow following exposure to a message. Items were derived from Nabi and Green’s initial theorizing and the final 6-item measurement model demonstrated good fi…
She made a mean beef stroganoff”
Media articles about women in STEM often emphasize gender in ways that may reinforce stereotypes. In an archival study examining 172 articles from four major US and UK newspapers on women, Nobel laureates from 1903 to 2020, we find that over time, reporters are more likely to describe the scientist as a woman and less likely to mention her husband's job. A follow-up experiment (N = 452) revealed no significant effects of an article that emphasize…
Stories for Good
Narratives and literary works have delighted and enchanted audiences for centuries. This chapter explores how stepping into a narrative world can contribute to human flourishing. Engaging in stories can provide an escape from the mundane into a realm where one can safely discover new and otherwise inaccessible experiences; stories can also help create meaning and provide a framework for interpreting events in one’s world. The authors review resea…
Using comics and tweets to raise awareness about gender biases in STEM
Entertainment and social media use during social distancing
Back where I belong
Narrative and choice effects on learning outcomes
In a 2 (choice) X 2 (message format) study (N = 283), participants were randomly assigned to either have a choice or no choice in message format and to read either a narrative or a non-narrative. They then completed a quiz on the material. We examined whether dispositional tendency to become transported into a narrative (transportability) would increase learning from narrative material, and whether manipulations would affect quiz scores, satisfac…
Framing Inspirational Content
Media coverage often construes stories of misfortune as inspirational accounts of individuals overcoming challenges. These reports fail to address the systemic issues that have predisposed these individuals to their current situation, and may have unintended consequences when it comes to the ability to collectively address these failings as a society. Participants ( N = 495) were randomly assigned to 1) read an inspirational story about a boy sav…
Obituaries can popularize science and health
Restorative Narratives
Restorative narratives are stories that highlight how people recover from adversity. Researchers have proposed that this storytelling approach may provide a way to share negative news without emotionally overwhelming audiences. Instead, restorative narratives may decrease the need for emotion regulation processes and as a result, increase the willingness to help those in need. In Study 1, a restorative narrative elicited more positive emotions an…
From Apprentice to President
Data suggest that the outcome of the 2016 American presidential election was a surprise to most people. We conducted a study to examine the role parasocial bonds formed with Trump due to his appearances on reality television played in his surprising victory. Results suggested that exposure to Trump though The Apprentice and through other media predicted the formation of parasocial bonds with Trump. These parasocial bonds with Trump predicted beli…
Misinformation and Mass Audiences
The Effect of Gender on Attributions for Women’s Anxiety and Doubt in a Science Narrative
Although the effect of biases and stereotype threat on women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields is well documented, less is known about how men and women attribute an undergraduate woman’s anxieties in a STEM class. We examined how undergraduate men and women perceive a woman facing emotional struggles in a physics class (Study 1, N = 309; Study 2, N = 271) and having her contributions ignored in an environmental science …
The impact of an “aha” moment on gender biases
Social Network Sites and Well-Being
In the early days of the Internet, both conventional wisdom and scholarship deemed online communication a threat to well-being. Later research has complicated this picture, offering mixed evidence about how technology-mediated communication affects users. With the dawn of social network sites, this issue is more important than ever. A close examination of the extensive body of research on social network sites suggests that conflicting results can…
Stories of Minds and Bodies
Article Stories of Minds and Bodies: The Role of Evolutionary Perspectives in Understanding Narrative was published on April 1, 2017 in the journal Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture (volume 1, issue 1)
A good story
Three studies examined gender differences in the effect of storytelling ability on perceptions of a person's attractiveness as a short‐term and long‐term romantic partner. In Study 1, information about a potential partner's storytelling ability was provided. Study 2 participants read a good or poor story supposedly written by a potential partner. Results suggested that only women's attractiveness assessments of men as a long‐term date increased f…
The role of transportation in the persuasiveness of public narratives
Telephone versus Face-to-Face Interviewing of National Probability Samples with Long Questionnaires
Journal Article Telephone versus Face-to-Face Interviewing of National Probability Samples with Long Questionnaires: Comparisons of Respondent Satisficing and Social Desirability Response Bias Get access ALLYSON L. HOLBROOK, ALLYSON L. HOLBROOK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELANIE C. GREEN, MELANIE C. GREEN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JON A. KROSNICK JON A. K…
The psychology of the unthinkable
The Impact of “No Opinion” Response Options on Data Quality
According to many seasoned survey researchers, offering a no-opinion option should reduce the pressure to give substantive responses felt by respondents who have no true opinions. By contrast, the survey satisficing perspective suggests that no-opinion options may discourage some respondents from doing the cognitive work necessary to report the true opinions they do have. We address these arguments using data from nine experiments carried out in …
Understanding Media Enjoyment
Journal Article Understanding Media Enjoyment: The Role of Transportation Into Narrative Worlds Get access Melanie C. Green, Melanie C. Green 1Melanie C. Green (PhD, Ohio State University) is an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. 4Melanie Green at the Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Timothy …
Transportation Into Narrative Worlds
Transportation into a narrative world" (Green & Brock, 2000, 2002) has been identified as a mechanism of narrative impact. A transported individual is cognitively and emotionally involved in the story and may experience vivid mental images. In the study reported here, undergraduate participants (N = 152) read a narrative about a homosexual man attending his college fraternity reunion, rated their transportation into the story, rated the perceived…
Do high-status people really have fewer children
Organizational Membership versus Informal Interaction
Participation in formal organizations has been considered a marker of social capital, but informal interactions may also provide social-capital relevant benefits. The current studies (N = 252 undergraduates; 60 adult members of a service organization) assessed skills, outcomes, and social-structural perceptions that may be developed from organizational or informal participation. Results suggested that organizations serve as potential training gro…
Restorative Narratives
Restorative narratives are stories that highlight how people recover from adversity. Researchers have proposed that this storytelling approach may provide a way to share negative news without emotionally overwhelming audiences. Instead, restorative narratives may decrease the need for emotion regulation processes and as a result, increase the willingness to help those in need. In Study 1, a restorative narrative elicited more positive emotions an…
Personal Identity and Civic Responsibility
Twenty–two students in a community action certificate program supplied “rising to the occasion” narratives during summer–long internships. They also filled out measures of generativity. Twenty–one students in an international studies certificate program that also included a summer internship served as a comparison group. Both groups reported equal personal growth from rising to the occasion experiences and no differences on measures of optimism, …
Biases in research evaluation
She made a mean beef stroganoff”
Media articles about women in STEM often emphasize gender in ways that may reinforce stereotypes. In an archival study examining 172 articles from four major US and UK newspapers on women, Nobel laureates from 1903 to 2020, we find that over time, reporters are more likely to describe the scientist as a woman and less likely to mention her husband's job. A follow-up experiment (N = 452) revealed no significant effects of an article that emphasize…
The impact of an “aha” moment on gender biases
Bridging a Disciplinary Divide
Deborah M. Wituski, Rosalee A. Clawson, Zoe M. Oxley, Melanie C. Green, Michael K. Barr, Bridging a Disciplinary Divide: The Summer Institute in Political Psychology, PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Jun., 1998), pp. 221-226
The Consumer Reports study of psychotherapy
The Consumer Reports study of psychotherapy
The conclusion that Consumer Reports (CR) has provided empirical validation of the e f f e t i v e n e s s of p s y h o t h e r a p y (Seligman, 1995, p. 974) was reached after a bravura run across a minefield of methodological flaws, In Seligman's reanalysis of the CR (1994) survey findings, many threats to internal validity (Campbell & Stanley, 1969; Cook & Campbell, 1979) were found to apply to the CR data, but they were swiftly argued away. H…
New evidence of flaws in the Consumer Reports study of psychotherapy
Social psychology and changing technologies
Social psychology and changing technologies
New evidence of flaws in the Consumer Reports study of psychotherapy
Bridging a Disciplinary Divide
Deborah M. Wituski, Rosalee A. Clawson, Zoe M. Oxley, Melanie C. Green, Michael K. Barr, Bridging a Disciplinary Divide: The Summer Institute in Political Psychology, PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Jun., 1998), pp. 221-226
The psychology of the unthinkable
The role of transportation in the persuasiveness of public narratives
The Impact of “No Opinion” Response Options on Data Quality
According to many seasoned survey researchers, offering a no-opinion option should reduce the pressure to give substantive responses felt by respondents who have no true opinions. By contrast, the survey satisficing perspective suggests that no-opinion options may discourage some respondents from doing the cognitive work necessary to report the true opinions they do have. We address these arguments using data from nine experiments carried out in …
Personal Identity and Civic Responsibility
Twenty–two students in a community action certificate program supplied “rising to the occasion” narratives during summer–long internships. They also filled out measures of generativity. Twenty–one students in an international studies certificate program that also included a summer internship served as a comparison group. Both groups reported equal personal growth from rising to the occasion experiences and no differences on measures of optimism, …
Telephone versus Face-to-Face Interviewing of National Probability Samples with Long Questionnaires
Journal Article Telephone versus Face-to-Face Interviewing of National Probability Samples with Long Questionnaires: Comparisons of Respondent Satisficing and Social Desirability Response Bias Get access ALLYSON L. HOLBROOK, ALLYSON L. HOLBROOK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELANIE C. GREEN, MELANIE C. GREEN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JON A. KROSNICK JON A. K…
Understanding Media Enjoyment
Journal Article Understanding Media Enjoyment: The Role of Transportation Into Narrative Worlds Get access Melanie C. Green, Melanie C. Green 1Melanie C. Green (PhD, Ohio State University) is an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. 4Melanie Green at the Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Timothy …
Transportation Into Narrative Worlds
Transportation into a narrative world" (Green & Brock, 2000, 2002) has been identified as a mechanism of narrative impact. A transported individual is cognitively and emotionally involved in the story and may experience vivid mental images. In the study reported here, undergraduate participants (N = 152) read a narrative about a homosexual man attending his college fraternity reunion, rated their transportation into the story, rated the perceived…
Organizational Membership versus Informal Interaction
Participation in formal organizations has been considered a marker of social capital, but informal interactions may also provide social-capital relevant benefits. The current studies (N = 252 undergraduates; 60 adult members of a service organization) assessed skills, outcomes, and social-structural perceptions that may be developed from organizational or informal participation. Results suggested that organizations serve as potential training gro…
Narratives and Cancer Communication
Narratives can be an effective means of communicating cancer-related information. Transportation into narrative worlds, or immersion into a story, is a primary mechanism of narrative persuasion (Green & Brock, 2000, 2002). Transportation theory extends the domain of traditional message effects theories, as well as providing mechanisms for behavior change. Transporting narratives can both change beliefs and motivate action, and may be particularly…
Gender, socioeconomic status, age, and jealousy
The authors used a representative national sample (N = 777) to test the evolutionary hypothesis that men would be more bothered by sexual infidelity and women by emotional infidelity, the Jealousy as a Specific Innate Module (JSIM) effect. Our alternative conceptualization of jealousy suggests that there are distinct emotional components of jealousy that did not evolve differently by gender. The authors looked for effects of age, socioeconomic st…
Biases in research evaluation
Do high-status people really have fewer children
Narrative communication in cancer prevention and control
Narrative forms of communication-including entertainment education, journalism, literature, testimonials, and storytelling-are emerging as important tools for cancer prevention and control. To stimulate critical thinking about the role of narrative in cancer communication and promote a more focused and systematic program of research to understand its effects, we propose a typology of narrative application in cancer control. We assert that narrati…
Transportation Across Media
“Transportation into a narrative world” is a state of immersion into a story (CitationGreen & Brock, 2000). Transportation entails imagery, emotional response, and attentional focus. Two studies investigated whether transportation was affected by the medium of story presentation, especially when the narrative was experienced for a second time (e.g., watching the movie version of a previously read story). Study 1 (N = 88) showed that people who re…
You are who you watch
Identification and transportation are believed to be major moderators of the impact of media consumption on its consumers. A study (N = 118) was conducted to examine the effects of identification and transportation on activation of media concepts in the “real world” lives of media consumers. Results indicated that under conditions of high identification, participants temporarily displayed increased activation of trait characteristics displayed by…
This Story Is Not for Everyone
Across two studies, the authors examined the role of individual differences in transportability, the tendency to become transported into narratives, in predicting the degree of attitude change resulting from persuasive narratives. In Study 1 ( N = 137), participants were persuaded by a story promoting tolerance toward homosexuals only to the extent that they self-rated as highly transportable. In Study 2 ( N = 298), this finding was replicated us…
Interactive Narratives
Interactive narratives are stories that allow readers to determine the direction of the plot, often at key decision points. Unanswered questions remain about the types of psychological processes evoked by these “Choose Your Own Adventure” style narratives, as well as the relative persuasive influence of interactive narratives compared to traditional narratives. The current paper reviews the existing literature and provides a theoretical framework…
The Transportation Scale–Short Form (TS–SF)
One popular concept to capture the experience of being immersed into the world of a story is that of transportation. This article examines the factorial validity of the Transportation Scale (TS) and introduces a short and psychometrically sound alternative for the assessment of transportation. Exploratory bifactor modeling in Study 1 (N = 179) provided support for the hypothesized factor structure of the original TS with three facets and a genera…
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