I know from personal experience that it's true! How perceived realism in video games and television series may affect real-world beliefs.
Summary
From the idea that a narrative can be absorbing, bring about a transporting experience, make the
spectator identify with characters and in turn experience the narrative as realistic comes our main
hypothesis that perceived realism can affect real-world beliefs. We subjected our 70 participants
to a questionnaire exploring this and two supporting hypotheses, making use of the individual's
memories of a favourite series or video game. We then explored our results using multiple
regression and came to mixed yet interesting and revealing conclusions, both for our hypotheses
and as well for the mediumspecifc aspects of the process we propose.