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The Development of Story Liking: Character Identification, Suspense, and Outcome Resolution. Technical Report No. 291.
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Jose, Paul E.; Brewer, William F. – 1983
To examine the effect of structural factors on the development of story appreciation, a developmental model of story liking for suspense stories was tested by having second, fourth, and sixth grade children rate suspense stories on 10 affective scales. Specifically, the model predicted that (1) reader identification would increase with greater…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Age Differences, Characterization, Childrens Literature