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  1. Weighing Up Physical Causes: Effects of Culture, Linguistic Cues and Content.Sieghard Beller, Jie Song & Andrea Bender - 2009 - Journal of Cognition and Culture 9 (3-4):347-365.
    Cross-cultural differences in cognition are often related to one single cultural dimension. Whether this suffices even for simple tasks is examined in the context of causal attribution. Culture-specific attribution biases are well-established for the social domain, but under dispute for the physical domain. In order to identify and assess possible impacts on assigning physical causation, we conducted a cross-cultural experiment with participants from Germany, China and Tonga. Participants were required to identify which of two entities is the ultimate cause for (...)
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  • Making sense of causal relations. A cross-cultural and cross-linguistic study.Olivier Le Guen, Jana Samland, Thomas Friedrich, Daniel Hanus & Penelope Brown - 2015 - Frontiers in Psychology 6.
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  • (1 other version)Core knowledge.Elizabeth S. Spelke - 2000 - American Psychologist 55 (11):1233-1243.
    Complex cognitive skills such as reading and calculation and complex cognitive achievements such as formal science and mathematics may depend on a set of building block systems that emerge early in human ontogeny and phylogeny. These core knowledge systems show characteristic limits of domain and task specificity: Each serves to represent a particular class of entities for a particular set of purposes. By combining representations from these systems, however human cognition may achieve extraordinary flexibility. Studies of cognition in human infants (...)
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  • Theory, the Final Frontier? A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Role of Theory in Psychological Articles.Sieghard Beller & Andrea Bender - 2017 - Frontiers in Psychology 8.
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  • How contrast situations affect the assignment of causality in symmetric physical settings.Sieghard Beller & Andrea Bender - 2014 - Frontiers in Psychology 5.
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  • (1 other version)Core knowledge.Elizabeth S. Spelke & Katherine D. Kinzler - 2007 - Developmental Science 10 (1):89-96.
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  • Foundations of Cognitive Grammar.Ronald W. Langacker - 1983 - Indiana University Linguistics Club.
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  • What causal conditional reasoning tells us about people's understanding of causality.Sieghard Beller & Gregory Kuhnmünch - 2007 - Thinking and Reasoning 13 (4):426-460.
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  • Ergativity: Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations.Christopher D. Manning - unknown
    I wish to present a codi cation of syntactic approaches to dealing with ergative languages and argue for the correctness of one particular approach, which I will call the Inverse Grammatical Relations hypothesis.1 I presume familiarity with the term `ergativity', but, brie y, many languages have ergative case marking, such as Burushaski in (1), in contrast to the accusative case marking of Latin in (2). More generally, if we follow Dixon (1979) and use A to mark the agent-like argument of (...)
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  • The macro-event property: The segmentation of causal chains.Jurgen Bohnemeyer, N. J. Enfield, James Essegbey & Sotaro Kita - 2010 - In Jürgen Bohnemeyer & Eric Pederson (eds.), Event representation in language and cognition. New York: Cambridge University Press.
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  • Presumptive meanings: the theory of generalized conversational implicature.Stephen C. Levinson - 2000 - Cambridge: MIT Press.
    When we speak, we mean more than we say. In this book Stephen C. Levinson explains some general processes that underlie presumptions in communication.
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  • The causal asymmetry.Peter A. White - 2006 - Psychological Review 113 (1):132-147.
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  • What causal conditional reasoning tells us about people's understanding of causality.Sieghard Beller & Gregory Kuhnm - 2007 - Thinking and Reasoning 13 (4):426 – 460.
    Causal conditional reasoning means reasoning from a conditional statement that refers to causal content. We argue that data from causal conditional reasoning tasks tell us something not only about how people interpret conditionals, but also about how they interpret causal relations. In particular, three basic principles of people's causal understanding emerge from previous studies: the modal principle, the exhaustive principle, and the equivalence principle. Restricted to the four classic conditional inferences—Modus Ponens, Modus Tollens, Denial of the Antecedent, and Affirmation of (...)
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  • Two Theories of Home Heat Control.Willett Kempton - 1986 - Cognitive Science 10 (1):75-90.
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  • The logic of content effects in propositional reasoning: The case of conditional reasoning with a point of view.Sieghard Beller & Hans Spada - 2003 - Thinking and Reasoning 9 (4):335 – 378.
    In order to resolve the controversial discussion regarding content effects in deductive reasoning, we propose distinguishing between two inferential sources—an argument's form , and additional relations people associate with the argument's content —and analysing their interplay. Both sources are equally necessary in order to understand the role content plays in deductive reasoning. People make valid deductions from the content relations ( content competence ), but in thematic reasoning tasks, these deductions lead to the intriguing phenomenon known as content effects . (...)
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  • Folkscience: coarse interpretations of a complex reality.Frank C. Keil - 2003 - Trends in Cognitive Sciences 7 (8):368-373.
    The rise of appeals to intuitive theories in many areas of cognitive science must cope with a powerful fact. People understand the workings of the world around them in far less detail than they think. This illusion of knowledge depth has been uncovered in a series of recent studies and is caused by several distinctive properties of explanatory understanding not found in other forms of knowledge. Other experimental work has shown that people do have skeletal frameworks of expectations that constrain (...)
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  • Bringing history back to culture: on the missing diachronic component in the research on culture and cognition.Rumen I. Iliev & Bethany L. Ojalehto - 2015 - Frontiers in Psychology 6.
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  • The psychological causality implicit in language.Roger Brown & Deborah Fish - 1983 - Cognition 14 (3):237-273.
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  • Conditional Promises and Threats in Germany, China, and Tonga: Cognition and Emotion.Sieghard Beller, Andrea Bender & Jie Song - 2009 - Journal of Cognition and Culture 9 (1-2):115-139.
    Conditional promises and threats are speech acts that aim at changing another person's behavior according to one's own goals. They combine several components on different levels: goals and incentives/penalties on the motivational level, formulations on the linguistic level, obligations on the deontic level, action sequences on the behavioral level, and affective responses on the emotional level. In a cross-cultural study – comparing Germany, China, and the Kingdom of Tonga – we examined the extent to which the cognitive understanding of conditional (...)
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  • Culture or language: what drives effects of grammatical gender?Sieghard Beller, Karen Fadnes Brattebø, Kristina Osland Lavik, Rakel Drønen Reigstad & Andrea Bender - 2015 - Cognitive Linguistics 26 (2):331-359.
    Name der Zeitschrift: Cognitive Linguistics Jahrgang: 26 Heft: 2 Seiten: 331-359.
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  • Thought before language: Do we think ergative.Susan Goldin-Meadow - 2003 - In Dedre Gentner & Susan Goldin-Meadow (eds.), Language in Mind: Advances in the Study of Language and Thought. MIT Press. pp. 493--522.
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  • The Wind Chilled the Spectators, but the Wine Just Chilled: Sense, Structure, and Sentence Comprehension.Mary Hare, Jeffrey L. Elman, Tracy Tabaczynski & Ken McRae - 2009 - Cognitive Science 33 (4):610-628.
    Anticipation plays a role in language comprehension. In this article, we explore the extent to which verb sense influences expectations about upcoming structure. We focus on change of state verbs like shatter, which have different senses that are expressed in either transitive or intransitive structures, depending on the sense that is used. In two experiments we influence the interpretation of verb sense by manipulating the thematic fit of the grammatical subject as cause or affected entity for the verb, and test (...)
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  • Indicators of causal agency in physical interactions: The role of the prior context.Ralf Mayrhofer & Michael R. Waldmann - 2014 - Cognition 132 (3):485-490.
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  • Distinguishing Between Causes and Enabling Conditions—Through Mental Models or Linguistic Cues?Gregory Kuhnmünch & Sieghard Beller - 2005 - Cognitive Science 29 (6):1077-1090.
    The mental model theory of naive causal understanding and reasoning (Goldvarg & Johnson‐Laird, 2001, Cognitive Science, 25, 565–610) claims that people distinguish between causes and enabling conditions on the basis of sets of models that represent possible causal situations. In the tasks used to test this hypothesis, however, the proposed set of models was confounded with linguistic cues that frame which event to assume as given (the enabling condition) and which to consider as responsible for the effect under this assumption (...)
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