How verb tense affects the construal of action: the simple past tense leads people into an abstract mindset / Cómo el tiempo verbal afecta a la interpretación de las acciones: El pasado simple conduce a las personas a un nivel de representación abstracto
Psicológica (Valencia, Ed. impr.)
; 35(2): 209-223, 2014. tab
Article
in English
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| ID: ibc-123858
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RESUMEN
Two experiments examined the influence of verb tense on how abstractly people construe action representations. Experiment 1 revealed that written descriptions of several daily events using the simple past tense (vs. simple present tense) resulted in actions and the actions target being seen as less likely and less familiar, respectively. In Experiment 2 participants wrote about a personal episode of binge drinking (using the simple past tense vs. simple present tense), and the resulting narratives were coded using the Linguistic Category Model (see Semin & Fiedler, 1991). Results revealed that events were described at a more abstract level when texts were written using the simple past tense (vs. simple present tense). The results are discussed in the context of other effects of verb form and in relation to construal level of events (AU)
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Spain
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IBECS
Main subject:
Reaction Time
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Verbal Behavior
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Communication
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Narration
Type of study:
Qualitative research
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Psicológica (Valencia, Ed. impr.)
Year:
2014
Document type:
Article
Institution/Affiliation country:
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid/España
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Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia/España
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University of Pennsylvania/USA