A mixed-design experiment was conducted to explore differences between searching and surfing on cognitive and emotional responses to online news. Ninety-two participants read three unpleasant news stories from a website. Half of the participants acquired their stories by searching, meaning they had a previous information need in mind. The other half of the participants acquired their stories by...

this paper examines the quranic stories in a narratological approach.first the problem of the research is explained and the hypothesis is raised that there is no relationship between the quranic stories and narratology.the paper then reviews the literary on the litrary approaches to the quran and the holy book.then the genealogy of the words related to quranic stories is given.in the next part,...

Are quoted sources in online news as psychologically meaningful us those in printed and broadcast news ? A within-suhjects experiment was designed to answer this question. On a web site,forty-eight subjects read three online news stories with cjuotes and three stories without source attribution. They rated stories with quotes significantly higher in credibility and quality than identical storie...