• DOI:10.1207/S1532785XMEP0504_01
Corpus ID: 17614731

Reality-Based Television Programming and the Psychology of Its Appeal

@article{Nabi2003RealityBasedTP,
  title={Reality-Based Television Programming and the Psychology of Its Appeal},
  author={Robin L. Nabi and Erica Biely and Sara J Morgan and Carmen R. Stitt},
  journal={Media Psychology},
  year={2003},
  volume={5},
  pages={303 - 330}
}

• Robin L. Nabi, Erica Biely, +1 author Carmen R. Stitt
• Published 1 November 2003
• Psychology
• Media Psychology

Despite the general presence of reality-based television programming for more than a decade and its recent increasing popularity, the extant literature on the phenomenon is limited. In Study 1, we considered how the viewing public constructs the so-called genre of reality-based TV. Multidimensional space analysis based on the Q-sort responses of 38 city residents indicated reality-based TV shows (a) are largely distinct from most major programming genres, although they do not form a… Expand