Suspending disbelief-of Wynne-Edwards and his reception

Suspending Virtual Disbelief: A Perspective on Narrative Coherence

The paper accommodates Espen Aarseth’s concept of virtuality and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s concept of suspension of disbelief to the context of modern story forms. The primary focus will be on the videogame. The premise is that suspending disbelief at narrative improbabilities is a skill required to construct narrative coherence. Constructing narrative coherence of stories that contain virtual ...

ASAC 1996 Wynne

In a recent study, Straub, Limayem, and Karahanna-Evaristo (1995) found little similarity between self reported measures and computer recorded measures of Information Technology (IT) usage. The between method correlation was assessed as 0.293 and the use of these two sets of measures within a nomological context consisting of perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use from the TAM model (Da...

Humor, Abstraction, and Disbelief

We investigated humor as a context for learning about abstraction and disbelief. More specifically, we investigated how parents support humor understanding during book sharing with their toddlers. In Study 1, a corpus analysis revealed that in books aimed at 1-to 2-year-olds, humor is found more often than other forms of doing the wrong thing including mistakes, pretense, lying, false beliefs, ...

The origins of religious disbelief.

Although most people are religious, there are hundreds of millions of religious disbelievers in the world. What is religious disbelief and how does it arise? Recent developments in the scientific study of religious beliefs and behaviors point to the conclusion that religious disbelief arises from multiple interacting pathways, traceable to cognitive, motivational, and cultural learning mechanis...

William Edwards Ladd, M.D. (1880-1967): the description of his bands.