C. Joseph Francemone

C. Joseph Francemone studies how audiences emotionally and morally respond to media narratives, especially how viewers form 'affective dispositions' (likes, dislikes, and moral judgments) toward fictional characters. Much of the work involves experiments and surveys testing theories about narrative engagement, character morality, and emotional experience while watching entertainment such as films and video content. Recent work also examines how AI systems like ChatGPT compare to humans in making moral judgments.

Publication output has grown from none in 2017 to a steady pace of roughly 2-5 papers per year since 2019, suggesting consistent and slightly increasing research activity over the past decade.

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