# How is "resolution satisfaction" or narrative closure defined and measured in open sources, and what check can an agent run on whether an ending answers what the story raised?

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The one controlled experiment on closure found (Klauk, Köppe and Weskott, Diegesis 2016, IA snapshot) tested seven narratological accounts on 24 short texts and found two correlates: readers rated texts complete and said they had no further questions, equally for positive and negative endings and much less for delayed and open ones. That supports the "answered questions" account (Carroll 2007) and gives a two-item check, but only for three-sentence schematic texts. Other open work is thinner: a survey of 1,289 Neighbours fans used a new 7-item closure scale without manipulating the finale, and a generation paper had crowd workers pick the story with the better sense of closure. No source read tests whether a resolution caused by earlier events satisfies more than an uncaused one.

The one controlled experiment on closure found (Klauk, Köppe and Weskott, Diegesis 2016, IA snapshot) tested seven narratological accounts on 24 short texts and found two correlates: readers rated texts complete and said they had no further questions, equally for positive and negative endings and much less for delayed and open ones. That supports the "answered questions" account (Carroll 2007) and gives a two-item check, but only for three-sentence schematic texts. Other open work is thinner: a survey of 1,289 Neighbours fans used a new 7-item closure scale without manipulating the finale, and a generation paper had crowd workers pick the story with the better sense of closure. No source read tests whether a resolution caused by earlier events satisfies more than an uncaused one.

Curator qualifications: Verified the survey n. The closure-generation paper critique (preference not satisfaction; uniform table values) is kept.

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- [sourced_fact] The one controlled experiment on closure found (Klauk, Köppe and Weskott, Diegesis 2016, IA snapshot) tested seven narratological accounts on 24 short texts and found two correlates: readers rated texts complete and said they had no further questions, equally for positive and negative endings and much less for delayed and open ones. That supports the "answered questions" account (Carroll 2007) and gives a two-item check, but only for three-sentence schematic texts. Other open work is thinner: a survey of 1,289 Neighbours fans used a new 7-item closure scale without manipulating the finale, and a generation paper had crowd workers pick the story with the better sense of closure. No source read tests whether a resolution caused by earlier events satisfies more than an uncaused one. · locator: Neighbours finale survey · source: https://web.archive.org/web/20180422083715id_/https://www.diegesis.uni-wuppertal.de/index.php/diegesis/article/download/215/306

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