Interpersonal verbs

Implicit causality of action verbs and contextual factors

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10902012
AutoresLucia Mannetti (Sapienza University of Rome, autor de correspondencia), Eraldo De Grada (Sapienza University of Rome)
Año1991
Volumen21
Número5
Páginas429-443
Fecha de publicación1991-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEuropean Journal of Social Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0046-2772 • E-ISSN: 1099-0992
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/ejsp.2420210506
OpenAlexW1587709832
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas22

The hypothesis that the degree of contextual dependence of interpersonal verbs (as defined by Semin and Fiedler (1988) in their LCM) significantly affects the strength of causality implicit in such verbs is assessed in an experiment. Results show that both the strength of causal inference induced by the verb and the degree of respondents' confidence in their own judgements increases from descriptive action verbs (DAV), to interpretive action verbs (IAV), to state action verbs (SAV), to state verbs (SV). Furthermore, the effect of contextual factors (gender of the stimulus sentence subject and object and respondents' gender) is shown to be stronger for more descriptive verbs like DAV and weaker for more abstract verbs like SV

Action (physics) · Causality (physics) · Cognitive psychology · Inference · Interpersonal communication · Linguistics · Modal verb · Object (grammar) · Sentence · Stimulus (psychology) · Verb · Artificial Intelligence · Child and Animal Learning Development · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology · Social Psychology