김상희 교수님의 새 연구 “Neural and
self-reported responses to antisocial news stories: Entertaining versus traditional
news introduction”가
'Experimental Psychology'분야 IF 상위
10% 이내 저널(IF: 6.829, 90개 저널 중 3위)인
Computers in Human Behavior에 온라인 게재되었습니다.
Title: Neural and self-reported responses
to antisocial news stories: Entertaining versus traditional news introduction
Authors: Shin Ah Kim, Stephan Hamann, Sang
Hee Kim
Abstract:
Recently,
as entertainment programs have become more prevalent in the news media, there
is a growing need to understand how entertainment appeal influences viewers'
sociomoral evaluation of news content. We investigated neural and self-reported
moral evaluation of antisocial news content in college students who viewed
real-life news reports featuring moral violations inside a functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scanner. Each news report was preceded by a traditional
or entertaining style of introduction. The behavioral results showed that
antisocial severity was reduced for antisocial news content that was presented
following entertaining news introductions versus traditional
news introductions. The fMRI results showed that entertainment news
introductions tax more cognitive control resources than traditional news
introductions during news processing, as indicated by greater activation in the
dorsolateral prefrontal region; however, they diminish moral saliency, as
suggested by the reduced activation in the medial prefrontal region. We also
found that greater dorsolateral prefrontal activation during the early phase of
news reports was associated with more lenient moral acceptability ratings in
the entertainment condition. Furthermore, reduced functional connectivity of
the mentalizing brain network was observed in the entertainment condition when
compared with the traditional condition. These results suggest that
entertainment appeal may increase resource depletion, diminish moral
sensitivity, and reduce functional integration of relevant social information
during news processing, thus hindering viewers' moral scrutiny. This novel
study contributes to a better understanding of how entertainment features
influence viewers’ sociomoral evaluation of news stories.