The pursuit of hopefulness in entertainment media

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Has a movie or TV show ever left you feeling happy or uplifted about your own life? Entertainment media provides a wealth of emotionally evocative content, but relatively little attention has been paid to the subject of media creating positive emotions, and specifically, hope. In a recent study, the author researches the effects of hope and underdog characters in entertainment media.

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