Spoilers scale

Please indicate your agreement with the following statements:

1= Strongly agree to 2 = Strongly disagree

I know how the story is going to end.

The story’s ending is given away by the preview.

I don’t know how the story will end.*

The preview tells me what to expect in the story.

I will be surprised by what happens in the story.*

Note. Reversed items indicated by asterisks.

Cite as: Johnson, B. K., & Rosenbaum, J. E. (2015). Spoiler alert: Consequences of narrative spoilers for dimensions of enjoyment, appreciation, and transportation. Communication Research, 42, 1068-1088. doi: 10.1177/0093650214564051

Narrative Processing Fluency Scale

Please indicate your agreement with the following statements.

1 = strongly disagree to 7 = strongly agree

The story was easy to follow.

I found it easy to understand the characters.

I understood what was going on.

It was easy to see why everything happened the way it did.

Cite as: Johnson, B. K., & Rosenbaum, J. E. (2016, June). Don’t tell me how it ends: Testing effects of narrative spoilers for film and television. Paper presented at the 66th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Fukuoka, Japan.