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Direct linkChan, Greta C.; Magliano, Joseph P.; O'Brien, Edward J. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2018
This study was conducted to investigate two factors that affect the processing of the outcomes of intentional actions. Participants read three-sentence stories that varied the presence of an explicit goal and the semantic association between the outcome and its situational context (i.e., physical or virtual location). The ease of processing…
Descriptors: Intention, Goal Orientation, Reading Rate, Context Effect
Chan, Greta C.; Foy, Jeffrey E.; Magliano, Joseph P. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2018
In some narratives one world is embedded within the main world of the story, which we refer to as the base world, and elements from one world can cross over into the other. This study explored the conditions in which readers perceive character crossover as being likely to occur. Participants read stories that set up the potential for a character…
Descriptors: Story Reading, Literary Genres, Reading Rate, Fantasy
