How long does it take to find a cause? An online investigation of implicit causality in sentence production

• Published in: Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) Vol. 59; no. 9; pp. 1535 - 1555
• Main Authors: Guerry, Michèle, Gimenes, Manuel, Caplan, David, Rigalleau, François
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England Psychology Press 01.09.2006; SAGE Publications; Psychology press; Taylor & Francis
• Subjects: Adult; Analysis of Variance; Anaphora; Association Learning - physiology; Biological and medical sciences; Complements; Concept Formation - physiology; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Imagination - physiology; Inference; Internet; Language; Lexical Semantics; Male; Miscellaneous; Psychoanalytic Theory; Psycholinguistics; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Reaction Time - physiology; Reading; Recognition (Psychology) - physiology; Semantic Processing; Semantics; Semantics Discourse Relationship; Students - psychology; Subject; Syntax Semantics Relationship; Task Performance and Analysis; Verbal Behavior - physiology; Human; Language; Cognition; Verbal production; Causality; Experimental study; Sentence

Some interpersonal verbs show an implicit causality bias in favour of their subject or their object. Such a bias is generally seen in offline continuation tasks where participants are required to finish a fragment containing the verb (e.g., Peter annoyed Jane because ...). The implicit causality bia...