University of Haifa, Israel
University of Verona, Italy
ESR 6 between December 2020 and March 2022
So-eun Park was an Early Stage Researcher/PhD candidate at the University of Haifa and the University of Verona. She completed her Bachelor of Science in Organisational Psychology at Erasmus University Rotterdam and her Master of Science in Psychology of Individual Differences at the University of Edinburgh.
She was in charge of ESR 6: The impact of narrative structure on engagement. The project explored the possibility that specific features of reading (text and context) lead to differences in how stories are experienced. The goal of the project was to establish causal relationships between features of narrative texts and the way readers psychologically engage with the stories and enjoy them. Using experimental methods and concepts from media psychology, the project consisted of a series of small experiments that explored how specific literary features and reading modes affect reader responses and enjoyment.