DISCOURSE PROCESSES

The Problem of Comprehension in Psycholinguistics

Comprehension Effects of Connectives Across Texts, Readers, and Coherence Relations

Readers’ Processing and Use of Source Information as a Function of Its Usefulness to Explain Conflicting Scientific Claims

How We Manage Social Relationships Through Answers to Questions: The Case of Interjections

Getting a Grip: The PET Framework for Studying How Reader Emotions Influence Comprehension

Empowering Stories: Transportation into Narratives with Strong Protagonists Increases Self-Related Control Beliefs

Grammatical Gender in German Influences How Role-Nouns Are Interpreted: Evidence from ERPs

Challenges in Processes of Validation and Comprehension

Understanding How Language-Specific and Domain-General Resources Support Comprehension

Smiling and the Negotiation of Humor in Conversation

Individual Differences in Revising (and Maintaining) Accurate and Inaccurate Beliefs About Childhood Vaccinations

Spoken metaphor comprehension: Evaluation using the metaphor interference effect

Successful and Unsuccessful Collaborative Processes in Strangers and Couples Performing Prospective Memory Tasks

Individual Differences in Mentalizing Capacity Predict Indirect Request Comprehension

A Linguistic or Pictorial Context: Does It Make a Difference?

Coherence Relations in Primary School Textbooks: Variation across School Subjects

Is “Few” Always Less than Expected?: The Influence of Story Context on Readers’ Interpretation of Natural Language Quantifiers

Readers’ processing of perceptual perspective and stance

Generating Predictive Inferences When Multiple Alternatives Are Available

Summarizing as a Strategy for Science Text Comprehension: Text-Based Versus Content-Based Processing

Nods, vocal continuers, and the perception of empathy in storytelling

Text Segment Length Can Impact Emotional Reactions to Narrative Storytelling

Order of Mention in Causal Sequences: Talking about Cause and Effect in Narratives and Warning Signs

Distraction and Temporal Order in Narrative Situation Models

Children’s Illusory Transparency of Intention: Construal versus Pragmatic View

Impact of Prosody on the Perception and Interpretation of Discourse Relations: Studies on “Et” and “Alors” in Spoken French

Anticipating Resistance to Health Advice: A Speech Act Perspective

Inferencing in Deaf Adolescents during Sign-Supported Speech Comprehension