Because there was a cause for concern: An investigation into a word-specific prediction account of the implicit-causality effect

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-15

  Featherstone, Cara R ^a   Sturt, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Focus; Implicit causality; Language; Prediction

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPREHENSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REACTION TIME; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPREHENSION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REACTION TIME; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77649175566     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210903134344     Document Type: Article

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