The Role of Perspective in the Accessibility of Goals During Reading
An implicit assumption of several causal reasoning models is that readers adopt the goals of a narrative's protagonist during text comprehension. In apparent violation of this assumption, readers participating in Experiment 1 of the present study drew inferences relevant to a protagonist's...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition memory, and cognition, 1995-03, Vol.21 (2), p.364-372 |
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Zusammenfassung: | An implicit assumption of several causal reasoning models is that readers adopt the goals of a narrative's protagonist during text comprehension. In apparent violation of this assumption, readers participating in Experiment 1 of the present study drew inferences relevant to a protagonist's goal even when that goal was already satisfied from the perspective of the protagonist. In Experiments 2 and 3, participants were explicitly asked to view the text situation from the point of view of the protagonist. In this case, the goals of the reader and the protagonist should be the same. In these experiments, participants focused on the goals of the protagonist only when those goals had not been satisfied from the perspective of the protagonist. These results are discussed in terms of reader-and character-based perspectives and in terms of text characteristics that cue perspective taking. |
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ISSN: | 0278-7393 1939-1285 |
DOI: | 10.1037/0278-7393.21.2.364 |