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Direct linkSkylark, William J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
We regularly compare magnitudes and describe these comparisons to other people. This article reports 9 experiments that examine how messages about the relative magnitude of two items affect inferences about the items' spatial arrangement. Native English speakers were given sentences such as "One tree is taller than the other," and their…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Inferences, Evaluative Thinking, Comparative Analysis
