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JOURNAL OF CONSUMER RESEARCH
卷 48, 期 2, 页码 235-250出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/jcr/ucab010
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narratives; natural language processing; experiences; movies; automated textual analysis
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Cultural products' success can be attributed to sentiment volatility, where fluctuations in emotions over time enhance engagement. Studies show that more volatile cultural items receive more positive evaluations, particularly in genres that are driven by stimulation.
Some cultural products (e.g., books and movies) catch on and become popular, while others fail. Why? While some have argued that success is unpredictable, we suggest that period-to-period shifts in sentiment-what we term sentiment volatility-enhance engagement. Automated sentiment analysis of over 4,000 movies demonstrates that more volatile movies are evaluated more positively. Consistent with the notion that sentiment volatility makes experiences more stimulating, the effect is stronger in genres where evaluations are more likely to be driven stimulation (i.e., thrillers rather than romance). Further, analysis of over 30,000 online articles demonstrate that people are more likely to continue reading more volatile articles. By manipulating sentiment volatility in follow-up experiments, we underscore its causal impact on evaluations, and provide evidence for the role of stimulation in these effects. Taken together, the results shed light on what drives engagement, the time dynamics of sentiment, and cultural analytics or why some cultural items are more successful.
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