How Verb Tense Affects the Construal of Action: The Simple Past Tense Leads People into an Abstract Mindset
Two experiments examined the influence of verb tense on how abstractly people construe action representations. Experiment 1 revealed that written descriptions of several daily events using the simple past tense (vs. simple present tense) resulted in actions and the action’s target being seen as less likely and less familiar, respectively. In Experiment 2 participants wrote about a personal episode of binge drinking (using the simple past tense vs. simple present [...]
The influence of psycholinguistic variables on the generation effect
El efecto de generación ha demostrado ser una técnica útil para [...]
The naming of gender-marked pronouns supports interactivity in models of lexical access
When a speaker names an object using a gender-marked pronominal form, [...]
Estimating the duration of visual stimuli in motion environments
The aim of this research is to determine the influence [...]
The inter-relations between spatial and object factors during sustained visual ttention to dynamic objects
The main goal of our research was to investigate attention [...]
