Despite the debate and lack of agreement as to a formal definition of causality, we argue that
people use systematic rules for assessing cause, both in science and everyday inference …

Causal explanation takes place in and takes the form of conversation. Explanations are
selected by questions and are thus governed by general rules of discourse. A …

New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin shifts his keen
insights from your brain on music to your brain in a sea of details. The information age is …

This chapter introduces readers to a basic model and framework with which to understand
how human cultures influence, and are influenced by, psychological processes and …

What does it mean to be transported by a narrative? to create a world inside one's head?
How do experiences of narrative worlds alter our experience of the real world? In this book …

On the basis of previous research, the authors hypothesize that (a) person descriptive terms
can be organized into the broad dimensions of agency and communion of which …

This study examined the relationship between intercultural communication (ICC)
competence and knowledge of the host culture and cross-cultural attitude. ICC competence …

The “deficit model” of public attitudes towards science has led to controversy over the role of
scientific knowledge in explaining lay people's attitudes towards science. In this paper we …

Notable advances resulting from new research findings, measurement approaches,
widespread uses of the Internet, and increasingly sophisticated approaches to sampling and …

Psychologically distant things (objects, events) are those that are not present in the direct
experience of reality. We would like to set aside the philosophical questions regarding the …