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Originally Posted by Hitch
How does using spoilers, to avoid having to figure out the plotline/mystery/storyline along the way, or wait for the reveal, ending, whatever, correspond to working with "singleness of purpose...to a goal?"
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It doesn't. Socialized achievement types don't try to achieve in every activity. I was assuming that the average readers of suspense fiction cannot correctly guess most endings. So guessing the ending would usually lead to failure, something achievement types do not like.
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Most of the more-avid readers of mysteries I know can nearly always figure out "whodunit" far in advance of the big reveal.
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As I understand the Leavitt/Christenfeld model, these readers would be among the big minority who not only consciously dislike spoilers, but, also, actually dislike spoiled works.
At that point "far in advance of the big reveal," I wonder if they then lose interest, due to having spoiled the ending though an act of intellect. I suppose some do.