Can A Funny Story about Tooth Brushing Decrease Plaque Scores in Children? A Longitudinal Field Experiment.

Dental caries is the most common chronic condition among children, it is thus a necessity to develop health communication tools to increase children's dental hygiene. Prior research among adults indicates that entertaining narrative communication can promote health behaviors, but knowledge on narrative effects on children's health outcomes is limited. In a repeated measures field experiment (N = 94, 4-10 years) we examined the long-term effects of repeated exposure to a humorous tooth brushing narrative about an orange monkey, versus an expository text on dental care, on children's self-reported and biomedical dental hygiene (plaque scores).

Corrigendum: Watching More Closely: Shot Scale Affects Film Viewers' Theory of Mind Tendency But Not Ability.

[This corrects the article on p. 2349 in vol. 8, PMID: 29387032.

Watching More Closely: Shot Scale Affects Film Viewers' Theory of Mind Tendency But Not Ability.

Recent research debates the effects of exposure to narrative fiction on recognition of mental states in others and self, referred to as Theory of Mind. The current study explores the mechanisms by which such effects could occur in fictional film. Using manipulated film scenes, we conducted a between subject experiment ( = 136) exploring how film shot-scale affects viewers' Theory of Mind.