Differences in how english and german speakers talk and reason about CAUSE Klettke, Bianca and Wolff, Phillip 2003, Differences in how english and german speakers talk and reason about CAUSE, in Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, N.J., pp. 675-680. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Differences in how english and german speakers talk and reason about CAUSE Author(s) Klettke, Bianca orcid.org/0000-0003-4602-2435 Wolff, Phillip Conference name Cognitive Science Society (U.S.). Conference. (25th : 2003 : Boston, Mass.) Conference location Boston, Massachusetts Conference dates July 31 - August 2 2003 Title of proceedings Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society Editor(s) Alterman, Richard Kirsh, David Publication date 2003 Conference series Cognitive Science Society Conference Start page 675 End page 680 Publisher Lawrence Erlbaum Place of publication Mahwah, N.J. Summary This research identifies how English and German speakers differ in the range of situations they describe as causal and how these difference may influence causal reasoning. In Experiments 1 and 2, English and German speakers described 3D animations of complex events using CAUSE verbs (cause, get) and ENABLE verbs (let, enable). As predicted, English speakers used CAUSE verbs to describe a wider range of events than German speakers. In Experiment 3, English and German speakers viewed 3D animations of CAUSE and ENABLE events and then estimated the likelihood of the effect (E) in the presence of the affector (A), p(E|A), in hypothetical situations similar to the one they just saw. Given the results of Experiments 1 and 2, we predicted that German speakers’ estimates of p(E|A) would be higher than English speakers’ estimates of p(E|A) for ENABLE events, but not necessarily for CAUSE events. The results were as predicted. The findings suggest that English and German speakers differ in the range of situations they describe as causal and that these differences in linguistic coding may lead to differences in causal reasoning. Language eng Field of Research 170103 Educational Psychology Socio Economic Objective 970117 Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences HERDC Research category E1.1 Full written paper - refereed Copyright notice ©2003, Taylor & Francis Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30006228 Document type: Conference Paper Collection: School of Psychology Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 30 May 2014, 08:14:48 EST Mon, 02 Jun 2014, 08:40:27 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 526 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 07 Jul 2008, 10:00:34 EST

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