When the case studies were shown to be fictional, participants' belief in a link diminished, but around half of the original effect remained.
There was nothing fictional in the belief that the Third Reich had been deeply evil, and that defeating it had been worthwhile.
In order to generate this problem, it is not necessary to ascend to false or abstract beliefs about fictional entities.
For example, Kovács et al. [ 11] found that participants' reaction times in a visual object detection task were modulated by the false beliefs of a fictional agent even when participants were aware that the agent's beliefs were unrelated to the task, suggesting that participants computed the agent's beliefs automatically.
Instead, the overall quality of his prodigious output prompts us to trust his belief that his fictional project is complete.
But oddly, it was only when I made these fictional men suffer from these belief systems that I understood how completely demoralizing it is.
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Since we can't have full-fledged beliefs about the fictional characters in films, the thought theory needs to explain why we are so moved by their fates.
At the time, many subscribed to what the scholar Gilbert Phelps called a "defiant little Englandism," the belief that "the English fictional tradition provided all the nourishment that was needed to rejuvenate the novel".
In earlier essays, Amis took note of Nabokov's disdain for sympathetic identification with fictional characters, and also of his belief that artistic effect was everything, the descriptor more important than the described.
