Jonathan Cohen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jonathan Cohen plays a role.
Articles
2017 Mediated relationships with TV characters: The effects of perceived and actual similarity in personality traits Scientific Study of Literature 7:1, pp. 109–128 | Article
Five TV actors completed the Big Five personality scale for a character they played on a popular Israeli TV comedy. Viewers of each of these series completed the same scales both for themselves and as they thought the characters would have completed them. They then completed parasocial… read more
2017 Chapter 7. Antecedents of identification: Character, text, and audiences Narrative Absorption, Hakemulder, Frank, Moniek M. Kuijpers, Ed S. Tan, Katalin Bálint and Miruna M. Doicaru (eds.), pp. 133–153 | Chapter
An important component of narrative involvement is identification, the taking on of a character’s emotions and perspective and adopting his or her goals. After carefully defining identification, the chapter turns to a brief discussion of some of its consequences such as enjoyment, interpretation,… read more
1992 On the Project of a Universal Character John Wilkins and 17th-Century British Linguistics, Subbiondo, Joseph L. (ed.), pp. 237–252 | Article