ABSTRACT This paper considers how citizens process and experience political narratives. We start by providing a general overview of political narratives. Next, we discuss how citizens mentally represent narratives, how individual stories interact with pre-existing knowledge, and how citizens use diverse sources of information to construct seemingly cohesive mental models of the political story world. Third, we describe how citizens become transported into political plotlines, simulating direct experience of distal political worlds. Further, we explain how citizens can draw upon their mental representations of the political story world to construct self-generated narratives – and how citizens can subsequently become transported into these self-generated narratives. Finally, we discuss how political narratives can affect political attitudes, beliefs, identities, and behaviors.

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内部的政治世界：政治交通概念化

摘要 本文考虑了公民如何处理和体验政治叙事。我们首先提供政治叙事的一般概述。接下来，我们将讨论公民如何在心理上表达叙事，个人故事如何与预先存在的知识相互作用，以及公民如何使用不同的信息来源来构建看似有凝聚力的政治故事世界的心智模型。第三，我们描述了公民如何被传送到政治情节中，模拟对远端政治世界的直接体验。此外，我们解释了公民如何利用他们对政治故事世界的心理表征来构建自我生成的叙事——以及公民如何随后被传送到这些自我生成的叙事中。最后，我们讨论政治叙事如何影响政治态度、信仰、