In Feelings: The Perception of Self, Laird deftly synthesizes decades of research supporting the ... more In Feelings: The Perception of Self, Laird deftly synthesizes decades of research supporting the self-perception theory of emotion and feeling, providing an account of these phenomenon that is compatible with radical behaviorism. Beginning with William James, Laird builds a system in which "emotions" are ways of acting in situations and "feelings" are responses to those environment-behavior pairings. However, Laird sometimes hesitates to present the strong conclusions that flow from his evidence and his premises. The evidence leads forcefully to the conclusion that behaviors cause feelings and that feelings are simply another form of behaving. This puts Laird's work squarely in the behaviorist lineages that grow out of James's work and includes the efforts of Holt, F. Allport, Tolman, Gibson, Skinner, and the emerging Radical Embodied Cognitive Science.
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An eye-tracking experiment investigated whether incremental interpretation applies to interclausa... more An eye-tracking experiment investigated whether incremental interpretation applies to interclausal relationships. According to Millis and Just's (1994) delayed-integration hypothesis, interclausal relationships are not computed until the end of the second clause, because the processor needs to have two full propositions before integration can occur. We investigated the processing of causal and diagnostic sentences (Sweetser, 1990; Tversky & Kahneman, 1982) that contained the connective because. Previous research (Traxler, Sanford, Aked, & Moxey, 1997) has demonstrated that readers have greater difficulty processing diagnostic sentences than causal sentences. Our results indicated that difficulty processing diagnostic sentences occurred well before the end of the second clause. Thus comprehenders appear to compute interclausal relationships incrementally.
Page 1. Abduction and Rhetorical Theory Michael D. Bybee One of rhetoric's m... more Page 1. Abduction and Rhetorical Theory Michael D. Bybee One of rhetoric's most enduring legacies is Aristotle's contention (eg , at Rhetoric 1354al) that rhetoric "is analogous" (estin antistro-phos) to logic - or, more specifically ...
Page 1. Logic in Rhetoric - And Vice Versa Michael D. Bybee [The] logicai and rhetorical works re... more Page 1. Logic in Rhetoric - And Vice Versa Michael D. Bybee [The] logicai and rhetorical works remained . . . prominent in estima-tions of Aristotle until the twentieth Century; new developments in logic hāve shown the limitations ...
Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Jan 1, 1984
Page 1. James's Theory of Truth As a Theory of Knowledge Michael D. Bybee In this es... more Page 1. James's Theory of Truth As a Theory of Knowledge Michael D. Bybee In this essay, I argue that James's theory of truth has knowledge as its object of investigation, not truth per se. That is, the concept James explained ...
In Feelings: The Perception of Self, Laird deftly synthesizes decades of research supporting the ... more In Feelings: The Perception of Self, Laird deftly synthesizes decades of research supporting the self-perception theory of emotion and feeling, providing an account of these phenomenon that is compatible with radical behaviorism. Beginning with William James, Laird builds a system in which "emotions" are ways of acting in situations and "feelings" are responses to those environment-behavior pairings. However, Laird sometimes hesitates to present the strong conclusions that flow from his evidence and his premises. The evidence leads forcefully to the conclusion that behaviors cause feelings and that feelings are simply another form of behaving. This puts Laird's work squarely in the behaviorist lineages that grow out of James's work and includes the efforts of Holt, F. Allport, Tolman, Gibson, Skinner, and the emerging Radical Embodied Cognitive Science.
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 027249897391982, Oct 22, 2010
An eye-tracking experiment investigated whether incremental interpretation applies to interclausa... more An eye-tracking experiment investigated whether incremental interpretation applies to interclausal relationships. According to Millis and Just's (1994) delayed-integration hypothesis, interclausal relationships are not computed until the end of the second clause, because the processor needs to have two full propositions before integration can occur. We investigated the processing of causal and diagnostic sentences (Sweetser, 1990; Tversky & Kahneman, 1982) that contained the connective because. Previous research (Traxler, Sanford, Aked, & Moxey, 1997) has demonstrated that readers have greater difficulty processing diagnostic sentences than causal sentences. Our results indicated that difficulty processing diagnostic sentences occurred well before the end of the second clause. Thus comprehenders appear to compute interclausal relationships incrementally.
Page 1. Abduction and Rhetorical Theory Michael D. Bybee One of rhetoric's m... more Page 1. Abduction and Rhetorical Theory Michael D. Bybee One of rhetoric's most enduring legacies is Aristotle's contention (eg , at Rhetoric 1354al) that rhetoric "is analogous" (estin antistro-phos) to logic - or, more specifically ...
Page 1. Logic in Rhetoric - And Vice Versa Michael D. Bybee [The] logicai and rhetorical works re... more Page 1. Logic in Rhetoric - And Vice Versa Michael D. Bybee [The] logicai and rhetorical works remained . . . prominent in estima-tions of Aristotle until the twentieth Century; new developments in logic hāve shown the limitations ...
Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Jan 1, 1984
Page 1. James's Theory of Truth As a Theory of Knowledge Michael D. Bybee In this es... more Page 1. James's Theory of Truth As a Theory of Knowledge Michael D. Bybee In this essay, I argue that James's theory of truth has knowledge as its object of investigation, not truth per se. That is, the concept James explained ...
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