Spoilers don't ruin movies or stories, according to a new study

A new study by researchers from the University of California at San Diego shows spoilers may actually enhance our experience when watching a film or reading a book.

According to The Salt Lake Tribune, researchers Nicholas Christenfeld and Jonathan Leavitt showed undergraduate students 12 different short stories from various genres, ranging from authors such as Agatha Christie, Anton Chekhov, Raymond Carver and John Updike. Some were just read normally, others had the ending embedded in the middle, and the final set had the ending in a prologue.

Each story was read by up to 30 people.

Readers of all but one of the stories preferred the stories with spoilers to the original stories.

According to Reuters, the researchers did not expect these results.

"I was quite surprised by the results," researcher Nicholas Christenfeld said in an interview. "Like most people, I don't turn to the end of a book to see who dies or what happens."

"Plots are just excuses for great writing," Christenfeld later explained. "Nonetheless, plots are important, like a skeleton or a coat hanger. You need it to display the things that are important but the plot itself isn't critical."

He also pointed out the fact that many movies and books can be seen or read multiple times and still be enjoyable.

Do you guys agree with these results?