Cognitive demand differences in causal inferences: Characters' plans are more difficult to comprehend than physical causation

Discourse Processes

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 255-278

  Shears, Connie ^a   Miller, Vanessa ^a   Ball, Megan ^a   Hawkins, Amanda ^a   Griggs, Janna ^a   Varner, Andria ^a  

^a CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34547177815     PISSN: 0163853X     EISSN: 15326950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01638530701226238     Document Type: Article

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