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An eye-tracking study examining the relationship between males’ eating disorder symptomatology, body mass index, and expectations about character behaviour in text (2021)
Journal Article

Eating disorder prevalence is increasing in males, perhaps more rapidly than in females. Theorists have proposed that cognitive biases are important factors underpinning disordered eating, especially those related to food, body, and perfectionism. We... Read More about An eye-tracking study examining the relationship between males’ eating disorder symptomatology, body mass index, and expectations about character behaviour in text.

No evidence of word-level uncertainty in younger and older adults in self-paced reading (2021)
Journal Article

In a self-paced reading study, we investigated whether older adults maintain a greater level of uncertainty about the identity of words in a sentence than younger adults, potentially due to deficits in visuo-perceptual processing of high-spatial freq... Read More about No evidence of word-level uncertainty in younger and older adults in self-paced reading.

Irony as a Test of the Presupposition-Denial Account: An ERP Study (2021)
Journal Article

According to the Presupposition-Denial Account, complement set reference arises when focus is on the shortfall between the amount conveyed by a natural language quantifier and a larger, expected amount. Negative quantifiers imply a shortfall, through... Read More about Irony as a Test of the Presupposition-Denial Account: An ERP Study.

Emoji as a Tool to Aid the Comprehension of Written Sarcasm: Evidence from Younger and Older Adults (2021)
Journal Article

There is evidence for an age-related decline in the ability to understand non-literal language such as sarcasm. There is also evidence to suggest that devices such as emoticons/emojis may influence sarcasm comprehension in younger adults. However, re... Read More about Emoji as a Tool to Aid the Comprehension of Written Sarcasm: Evidence from Younger and Older Adults.

Online representations of non-canonical sentences are more than good-enough (2021)
Journal Article

Proponents of good-enough processing suggest that readers often (mis)interpret certain sentences using fast-and-frugal heuristics, such that for non-canonical sentences (e.g., The dog was bitten by the man) people confuse the thematic roles of the no... Read More about Online representations of non-canonical sentences are more than good-enough.

Examining the influence of perspective and prosody on expected emotional responses to irony: Evidence from event-related brain potentials (2021)
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Ironic language is typically more difficult to process and interpret than a literal equivalent, hence is assumed to serve several social and emotional functions not achieved by literal communication (such as politeness or introducing humour). Several... Read More about Examining the influence of perspective and prosody on expected emotional responses to irony: Evidence from event-related brain potentials.

The impact of hyperbole on perception of victim testimony (2021)
Journal Article

This paper investigates how individuals perceive hyperbole in victim statements. Despite being one of the most commonly used literary tropes, the comprehension and cognition of hyperbole has been largely ignored in the psycholinguistics literature, a... Read More about The impact of hyperbole on perception of victim testimony.