Juanchich, Marie and Villejoubert, Gaelle (2009) How do speakers choose uncertainty phrases to express guilt probabilities? In: Taatgen, N. , van Rijn, H. , Schomaker , L. and Nerbonne , J. , (eds.) Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin,U.S.A. : Cognitive Science Society. pp. 2717-2722. ISBN 9780976831853
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Abstract
Many studies have documented what listeners understand when uncertainty is communicated to them verbally. Yet we still know little about the factors that will influence speakers� choice of a probability phrase over another when they wish to communicate uncertain facts. Using a legal setting, we showed that the quantitative meaning and the directionality of the verbal probability chosen were affected by both the uncertain outcome�s numerical probability and its perceived propensity of guilt. The discussion of these results will focus on implications for the understanding of speakers� choices of verbal probability phrases and for risk-framing in legal contexts.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Event Title: | CogSci 2009 |
| Research Area: | Psychology |
| Faculty, School or Research Centre: | Faculty of Business and Law Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > School of Social Science (until November 2012) Faculty of Business and Law > Kingston Business School (Leadership, HRM and Organisation) |
| Depositing User: | Gaelle Villejoubert |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Sep 2009 09:23 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Jul 2012 21:48 |
| URI: | http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/6310 |
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