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Direct linkGygax, Pascal; Garnham, Alan; Oakhill, Jane – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2004
Gygax, Oakhill and Garnham (2003) showed that, contrary to the assumption of earlier research, readers do not infer specific emotions such as "guilt" or "boredom". This paper presents evidence for the non-specificity of emotional inferences regardless of the nature of the stories. In Experiment 1 and 2, Gygax et al.'s stories were made longer. In…
Descriptors: Inferences, Sentences, Anxiety, Emotional Response
