de Groot, A. M., & Van der Pal, F. (1989). Causal linking during text comprehension. Psychological Reports, 65(2), 379-384.
de Groot, A.;Van der Pal, F.
1989
de Groot, A. M., & Van der Pal, F. (1989). Causal linking during text comprehension. Psychological Reports, 65(2), 379-384.
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Investigated the linking of causally related events during reading. Sets of 10-22 sentences were prepared so that each of 30 university students was presented with 10 texts in each of 4 conditions, 2 causal and 2 noncausal. Each text contained a test sentence for which reading time was registered. Mean reading time was shorter for the 2 causal conditions than for the 2 noncausal conditions, indicating that Ss engaged in causal linking during text comprehension.
Mean reading time was shorter for the two causal conditions than for the two noncausal conditions. It was concluded that during comprehension of text readers engage in causal linking.
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