Conference Agenda

Session

2.4: Eudaimonia

Time:

Thursday, 11/Sept/2025:

10:30am - 12:00pm

Session Chair: Julius KLINGELHOEFER

Location: LK053

Presentations

Less certain, more meaningful: The role of perceived narrative ambiguity and individual differences in the appreciation of ambiguous films

Koji YOSHIMURA

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

Theatre-based entertainment-education: Changing audience misconceptions about the bystander effect through eudaimonia

Natacha Svetlana Stevenin, André Melzer

University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

A Daily Dose of Affirmation: Investigating an Easy Path to Eudaimonic Entertainment Experiences and Its Impact on Well-Being in a Daily Diary Study

Rebekka KRELING¹, Daniel Possler², Leonard Reinecke¹

¹Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany; ²University of Music, Drama, and Media, Hanover, Germany

Repairing Mood or Restoring Meaning? How Disruptions in Worldviews Shape Entertainment Motives

JANAKI RIJI NAIR¹, NICHOLAS D. BOWMAN¹, DANIEL POSSLER², KANE BOWSHER¹

¹Syracuse University, United States of America; ²Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, Germany

Eudaimonic Responses to Fiction vs. Non-fiction Stories: Testing Dual Process Eudaimonic Entertainment Theories on Learning about the Opioid Epidemic

Judy M WATTS

University of Kansas, United States of America