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Findings & Conclusion.

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Secondary Research

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In essence, what I've found was that while spoilers do in fact help with aiding in the digestion in the plot; they actually might be counter intuitive when it comes to enjoyment by way of of suspense or involvement with the plot.

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Findings and Conclusion

In conclusion I have found that spoilers affect different people in different ways. For people who are emotionally attached to the story such as Bandar or majority of Horror viewers the spoilers are detrimental to enjoyment –this is because it disrupts the emotional involvement with the story such as seen in the Observation where the involvement could decrease by as much as 23.8%(Comedy category, Graph 1.1).

 For others that like predicting and can make out the story before watching, spoilers did not affect them heavily as they have a “low need for cognition” according to Christenfield. This also related to Weisenbergers study where they had said that spoilers had made the story “less thought provoking”; wherein people with a low need for cognition did not require “thought provoking” therefore if there was less, then it would not affect their enjoyment because it didn’t play a part to begin with. This shows that the lack of spoilers not only doesn’t affect enjoyment of NFCs negatively, but might even enhance the viewing. 

On the contrary people who are emotionally attached are negatively impacted by spoilers and plot fluency as a lack of knowledge of the plot increases the unpredictability which is favourable among them.  From this I can conclude that this means that spoilers have no effect on enjoyment and might even affect the enjoyment negatively therefore my hypothesis that “If people are exposed to as many spoilers as possible in the lead up to a TV series episode, then their enjoyment of the episode is better. This is because they can digest the plot and pace with the show better.” has been refuted.

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