Interpersonal verbs and dispositional adjectives

The psychology of causality embodied in language

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6200712
AutoresCurt Hoffman (University of Alberta), Maria A Tchir
Año1990
Volumen58
Número5
Páginas765-778
Fecha de publicación1990-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315
EditorialAmerican Psychological Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1037//0022-3514.58.5.765
OpenAlexW4256101529
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas19
Referencias citadas9

A series of studies showed that the tendency to assign greater causal weight to one interactant than to the other in sentence-events such as A doted on B or A detested B is related to the attributive reference of the adjective derived from the sentence verb. Thus, the pattern of causal weights for doted on (which has the derived form doting to describe A but none to describe B) favors A more so than does the pattern for detested (which has the form detestable to describe B but none to describe A). The effect was shown to be completely general across the verb types studied and was also obtained in an experiment using nonsense verbs and adjectives

Attribution · Causality (physics · Cognitive psychology · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Interpersonal communication · Interpersonal interaction · Interpersonal relationship · Linguistics · Categorization, perception, and language · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Multisensory perception and integration · Psychology · Social Psychology