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Film and Social Change:
Psychological Insights for Leveraging Impact
Beth Karlin Jazmine Alameddine
School of Social Ecology University of California Irvine
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Transformational Media Lab, UCI
Transformation
Media
System
Social
Individual Community
Industrial
Mission: Our lab studies how media is (and can be) used to transform individuals, communities, and systems.
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Components of Transformation
1. Compelling story
2. Charismatic leaders
3. Infrastructure
4. Opportunity
R. Matthew, 2002
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Components of Transformation
1. Compelling story
2. Charismatic leaders
3. Infrastructure
4. Opportunity
Documentary Film
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History of Documentary
“We believe that the cinema’s capacity for getting around, for observing and selecting from life itself, can be exploited in a new and vital art form”
John Grierson First Principles of Documentary, 1932
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History of Documentary
Romanticism
historical cinéma vérité
Propagandist
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Documentaries Today
“docu-ganda”
Director as subject
social action campaigns
Theatrical release
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Impacts of Documentary Film
Can psychology help?
Draws viewers in
Energize about the issue
Shift from aware to action
Strengthen organizations
policy changes or shifts in dialogue
Fledgling Fund, 2008
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Literature Review
1. Construal Level Theory
2. Theory of Emotions
3. Dual Processing Model
4. Protection Motivation Theory
5. Message Framing
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Psychological Distance
– Spatial
– Temporal
– Social
– Hypothetical
Information that is HERE and NOW given to ME with HIGH CERTAINTY reduces distance.
Construal Level Theory
(Trope & Liberman, 2010)
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Plutchik’s Theory of Emotions 1. Emotions are adaptive and evolutionary 2. 8 basic emotions (and many deriviatives) 3. Pairs of polar opposites (positive/negative affect) 4. Emotions vary in similarity, intensity, etc.
(Plutchik, 1980)
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Dual Process Model
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Cognitive Appraisal
www.cred.columbia.edu
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Affective Response
www.cred.columbia.edu
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Protection Motivation Theory
Perceive Appraise Respond
• Threat appraisal • Coping appraisal
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Protection Motivation Theory
• Threat Appraisal – Threat Severity
– Threat Vulnerability
• Coping Appraisal
– Behavioral Efficacy
– Response Efficacy
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Protection Motivation Theory
High Coping Low Coping
High Threat Response Anxiety
Low Threat Apathy Indifference
Rogers, 1983
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Message Framing • The way in which a message is framed affects persuasion.
– Affect Emotional reactivity – Emotional reactivity changes information processing
(Keller, Lipkus, & Rimer, 2003; Smith & Petty, 1996)
• Mixed messages work! + affect, - information - affect, + information
www.cred.columbia.edu
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Current Research
• Goal: Investigate the use of psychological principles in documentary film to better understand how presentation choices can leverage impacts
• Approach: Content analysis of four documentaries: – An Inconvenient Truth – Invisible Children – Manufactured Landscapes – Supersize Me
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Content Analysis - Codes
• Temporal scope (current, near future, distant future) • Spatial scope (local, nonlocal, global) • Identifiability (one person, many people, animal, nature) • Personal relevance (first person, second person, third person) • Interconnectedness (isolated, systemic) • Risk certainty (definite, possible) • Positive/negative affect (music, imagery, content, tone) • Surprise/Expectancy violation • Information (statistics, stories) • Problem orientation (cause, effect, solution) • Agent of change (individual, collective, government, business)
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The Road to Engagement
• Construal Level Theory (Psychological distance) – Identifiably – Interconnectedness – Personal relevance – Risk certainty
• Theory of Emotion – Affective priming (emotional reactivity)
• Dual Process Model (Education) – Cognitive (facts/statistics) – Affective (stories/images)
• Protection Motivation Theory (Empowerment) – Evidence of Success (what has been done) – Solution (what is being done/can be done) – Specific Action (what the viewer can do)
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Analysis / Findings
• Analysis • Use of multiple coders for increased reliability • Discrepancies resolved through discussion • Iterative triangulation (Lewis, 1998) - Connecting
themes to theory and back again
• Findings • Identified several recurring codes/themes in data • Significant variation in codes between films • Developed 5 key insights for leveraging impact • Integrated insights into previous impact model
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Five Insights for Leveraging Impact
1. Reduce distance to increase level of involvement
2. Elicit emotion to create receptivity
3. Provide information to increase awareness
4. Empower audiences to engage behavior
5. Combine elements for maximum effect
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Five Insights for Leveraging Impact
1. Reduce distance to increase level of involvement
2. Elicit emotion to create receptivity
3. Provide information to increase awareness
4. Empower audiences to engage behavior
5. Combine elements for maximum effect
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Five Insights for Leveraging Impact
1. Reduce distance to increase level of involvement
2. Elicit emotion to create receptivity
3. Provide information to increase awareness
4. Empower audiences to engage behavior
5. Combine elements for maximum effect
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African Children
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Five Insights for Leveraging Impact
1. Reduce distance to increase level of involvement
2. Elicit emotion to create receptivity
3. Provide information to increase awareness
4. Empower audiences to engage behavior
5. Combine elements for maximum effect
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- affect, - info (data)
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Five Insights for Leveraging Impact
1. Reduce distance to increase level of involvement
2. Elicit emotion to create receptivity
3. Provide information to increase awareness
4. Empower audiences to engage behavior
5. Combine elements for maximum effect
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Five Insights for Leveraging Impact
1. Reduce distance to increase level of involvement
2. Elicit emotion to create receptivity
3. Provide information to increase awareness
4. Empower audiences to engage behavior
5. Combine elements for maximum effect
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- affect, - info (story)
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Five Insights for Leveraging Impact
1. Reduce distance to increase level of involvement
2. Elicit emotion to create receptivity
3. Provide information to increase awareness
4. Empower audiences to engage behavior
5. Combine elements for maximum effect
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Leveraging Impact
Emotion
Education
Empowerment
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Next Steps
1. Compelling story
2. Charismatic leaders
3. Infrastructure
4. Opportunity
Film
Campaign
Test clips in experimental setting
Campaign components
Quantifying “the ripple effect”
Latent impacts of participation
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Thank you!
Beth Karlin [email protected]
The film is the greatest teacher because it teaches us not only through the brain but through the whole body.
Pudovkin, 1948