Spoilers donât spoil stories. I think Jonathan Leavitt and Nicholas Christenfeld's contention that "Story Spoilers Don't Spoil Stories" is premature. Spoiler alert: Spoilers don't ruin stories, after all Luke, I am your father! In all three story types, incorporating spoiler texts into stories had no effect on how much they were liked, ps > .4. But weâre wrong and wasting our time, suggests a new experimental study from the University of California, San Diego. Story Spoilers Donât Spoil Stories @article{Leavitt2011StorySD, title={Story Spoilers Donât Spoil Stories}, author={Jonathan D. Leavitt and Nicholas Christenfeld}, journal={Psychological Science}, year={2011}, volume={22}, pages={1152 - ⦠A Study1 Investigated This Question. According to research by UC San Diego psychology professor Nicholas Christenfeld, spoilers donât ruin a story: They make you enjoy it even more. Researchers at UC San Diego are now claiming that they have evidence that spoilers enhance the reading experience by helping you enjoy stories more, but I donât think theyâre accounting for the full impact of spoilers. If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice. Psychological Science 2011 22: 9, 1152-1154 Download Citation. Contrary to popular wisdom, they actually seem to enhance enjoyment. Does Having A Story Spoiled In This Way Diminish Suspense And Hurt Enjoyment? DOI: 10.1177/0956797611417007 Corpus ID: 7955048. But Goldstein admits that this is her personal preference and that sheâs in the minority on spoilers. Contrary to ⦠Another version had a spoiler ⦠Knowing how the story turns out, Goldstein says, allows her to relax into the story more and enjoy its finer points, like character and plot development. People who flip to the last page of a book before starting it have the better intuition. Jonathan D. Leavitt and Nicholas J. S. Christenfeld. Fans will tell you that spoilers either ruin the experience or enhance it, but if you ask me itâs more complicated than that. âI definitely think that most people donât want to know the ending,â she says. Spoilers don't spoil stories. To date, thereâs been only 1 experiment about spoilers (Story Spoilers Donât Spoil Stories).Psychologists Jonathan D. Leavitt and Nicholas J. S. Christenfeld of the University of California, San Diego had 819 (176 male, 643 female) undergraduate students participate in an experiment in which they read 3 stories they had not read before. One more spoiler: In the movie âThe Usual Suspects,â Kevin Spacey is Keyser Söze. Subjects also did not indicate in their free responses that they found these altered beginnings out of place or jarring. Knowing the twist in a movie, book or TV show doesn't spoil the experience, a new study shows. Story Spoilers Donât Spoil Stories 1153 p = .019, d = 0.22. 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