Browsing Psychology by Author "Dixon, James E."
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The mental representation of "If Only thoughts" : undoing the exceptionality effect
Dixon, James E. (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2009)The aim of this thesis is to investigate the mental representations and cognitive processes that underlie counterfactual 'if only' thoughts. We examine the exceptionality effect, the tendency to undo exceptional antecedents ...