Fig. 1

Correlation between narrative engagement and reaction times. Top: Overall correlation between narrative engagement and reaction time for each clip. Error bars denote 95% confidence intervals within each clip. Narrative engagement has been divided by the 12 items in the scale, to create a score between 1 and 7 (note: the factor loading for each item of the scale is unidirectional; Busselle & Bilandzic, 2009), as such it is appropriate to construct a summary score in this way). An overview of the clips used in this experiment can be seen in Table 1. Bottom: Raincloud plot of each participant’s correlation between reaction time and narrative engagement (left) or immersion (right). Each point represents one participant. Boxplots denote median and quartiles, violin plots provide density estimates