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The Agent Preference in Ontogeny: Predictability of Agent and Patient Roles in Child‐Directed Utterances Across Languages

open access: yesCognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract Language comprehension unfolds incrementally, requiring listeners to continually predict and revise interpretations. Comprehenders across very diverse languages show a consistent preference for agents, anticipating the agent (“the doer” of an action) more strongly than the patient (“the undergoer”). An unresolved question is how the preference
Eva Huber   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Rhetoric of Disenchantment: Ghost Belief and Secular Critique in Early Twentieth‐Century China

open access: yesCognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract This study presents the first large‐scale empirical analysis of how ghosts and spirits were debated during China's early twentieth‐century secular transformation. Using a novel dataset of over 2000 digitized texts—including newspapers, periodicals, and essays from 1890 to 1949—we combine close reading, AI‐assisted annotation, and statistical ...
Ze Hong, Yuqi Chen
wiley   +1 more source

Asymmetric Anticipatory Emotions and Economic Preferences: Dread, Savoring, Risk, and Time

open access: yesCognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract We are often preoccupied with the future, experiencing dread at the thought of future misery and savoring the thought of future pleasure. Prior lab studies have found that these anticipatory emotions influence decision‐making. In this article, using economic survey data to estimate individual differences in anticipatory emotions, we find that ...
Chris Dawson, Samuel G. B. Johnson
wiley   +1 more source

Free Association Database for a 62-Word Dataset Including Emotion and Colour Terms in English, Estonian, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, and Spanish: Data from 14 Countries. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Open Psychol Data
Jonauskaite D   +26 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Event Knowledge Modulates Real‐Time Mental Representations of Object State‐Change

open access: yesCognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract The present study examines how real‐world event knowledge and grammatical aspect guide event comprehension. Specifically, we tested whether real‐world knowledge about the likelihood of state‐change (e.g., wine glasses usually crack when dropped but plastic cups do not) modulates the object state representations that people construct while ...
Sarah Hye‐yeon Lee, Elsi Kaiser
wiley   +1 more source

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