%0 Journal Article
%T Taking the perspective of the narrator
%A Anne E Cook
%A Edward J O¡¯Brien
%A Sarah D Creer
%J Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
%@ 1747-0226
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1747021818779496
%X Readers do not always adopt the perspective of the protagonist; however, they will under certain conditions. Experiments 1a and 1b showed that readers will take the perspective of the protagonist from the third-person point of view, but only when explicitly instructed to do so. Experiment 2 demonstrated that reading from the first-person point of view is a text-based manipulation that encourages readers to adopt the perspective of the protagonist. The results of Experiments 3a and 3b replicated the findings of Experiments 1a and 2. Experiment 4 established that simply increasing readers¡¯ attention to the text does not lead to adoption of the protagonist¡¯s perspective; moreover, this suggests that when it does occur, protagonist perspective adoption is not the result of increased attention, but strategic processing
%K Reading comprehension
%K memory
%K perspective
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1747021818779496