Psychological essentialist reasoning and perspective taking during reading: A donkey is not a zebra, but a plate can be a clock.
In an eyetracking study, we examined whether readers use psychological essentialist reasoning and perspective taking online. Stories were presented in which an animal or an artifact was transformed into another animal (e.g., a donkey into a zebra) or artifact (e.g., a plate into a clock). According...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 297 - 311 |
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Springer Nature
Feb2012
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