{"id":655,"date":"2016-05-09T17:40:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T21:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/?p=655"},"modified":"2018-06-08T11:54:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T15:54:52","slug":"allure-of-the-antihero-why-we-like-characters-who-act-badly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/2016\/05\/09\/allure-of-the-antihero-why-we-like-characters-who-act-badly\/","title":{"rendered":"Allure of the antihero: Why we like characters who act badly"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment104\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment104\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crc\/files\/2015\/09\/Tsay-Vogel_Mina2.jpg\" alt=\"Mina Tsay-Vogel\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/files\/2015\/09\/Tsay-Vogel_Mina2.jpg 350w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/files\/2015\/09\/Tsay-Vogel_Mina2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Mina Tsay-Vogel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To study TV\u00a0viewers\u2019 engagement with shows and stories featuring \u201canti-hero\u201d\u00a0characters, assistant professor and co-director of the Communication Research Center <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/profile\/mina-tsay-vogel\/\">Mina Tsay-Vogel<\/a> is looking beyond the past research that suggests viewers enjoy\u00a0watching \u201cgood\u201d characters win and \u201cbad\u201d characters lose.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/comtalk\/2016\/03\/04\/allure-of-the-antihero\/\">here<\/a> in COMtalk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To study TV\u00a0viewers\u2019 engagement with shows and stories featuring \u201canti-hero\u201d\u00a0characters, assistant professor and co-director of the Communication Research Center Mina Tsay-Vogel is looking beyond the past research that suggests viewers enjoy\u00a0watching \u201cgood\u201d characters win and \u201cbad\u201d characters lose. Check out the article here in COMtalk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6361,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}