Emotional Failure Stories Boost Connection, Enjoyment, and Recall Among High School Students

Poster Session VI

Keyword: Motivation

Abstract: We conducted a randomized controlled experiment (N=39, 17 males, Mage =15.92) to investigate the effects of emotional vs. non-emotional stories about scientist failure on high schoolers’ character identification, enjoyment in story-reading, and memory of motivational content. The emotional story positively affected all measures, highlighting its motivational impact.

• Keying Wang (Presenting Author)
• Yang Qu (Author)
• Xiaodong Lin-Siegler (Author)