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Bettinsoli, Maria Laura; Suitner, Caterina – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2022
Health messages are central to the field of public health in influencing behavioral change, and previous research does not offer a univocal answer on the most effective ordering of health outcomes and (un)healthy behaviors within health communication. An archival study revealed that online mass-media communicators tend to mention behaviors first.…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Health Behavior, Feedback (Response), Public Health
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White, Sarah J.; Warren, Tessa; Reichle, Erik D. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
Two experiments examined parafoveal preview for words located in the middle of sentences and at sentence boundaries. Parafoveal processing was shown to occur for words at sentence-initial, mid-sentence, and sentence-final positions. Both Experiments 1 and 2 showed reduced effects of preview on regressions out for sentence-initial words. In…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Vision, Visual Acuity, Reader Text Relationship
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Wheeldon, Linda R.; Smith, Mark C.; Apperly, Ian A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
An online picture description methodology was used to investigate the interaction between lexical and syntactic information in spoken sentence production. In response to arrays of moving pictures, participants generated prepositional sentences, such as "The apple moves towards the dog," as well as coordinate noun phrase sentences, such…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Priming, Sentences, Sentence Structure