Moral Deliberation as a Eudemonic Reaction to Morally Ambiguous Narrative Games

• In Event: ICA Interactive paper/Poster Session I
  In Interactive Paper Session: Game Studies Interactive Poster Session

Abstract

Transportation has failed to consistently predict eudemonic responses to narrative media despite being internally consistent with narrative processing mechanisms essential to appreciating and deriving meaning from morally ambiguous content. However, recent studies studying moral deliberation responses with ambiguous media found that deliberation was predicted by transportation, and correlated to appreciation. By exploring concepts consistent with eudemonic response to narrative media, this paper suggests additions to refine current moral deliberation scales. The concept may be especially applicable when analyzing the effects of morally ambiguous video games.

Author

• Kevin Kryston, Michigan State U