daxing

This makes sense, if 'daxing' is something to be proud of, then if Sally daxed all of the blickets, she'd say so.

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Also, "daxing" was described as either a neutral activity, as in the example above, or a negative activity (something to be ashamed of), or a positive activity (something to be proud of).

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Also, "daxing" was described as either a neutral activity, as in the example above, or a negative activity (something to be ashamed of), or a positive activity (something to be proud of).

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This makes sense, if 'daxing' is something to be proud of, then if Sally daxed all of the blickets, she'd say so.

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As you can see, the sentence contained unknown words ('daxing', 'blickets'), and participants were presented with a partial definition of one of them (that daxing is a neutral activity).

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As you can see, the sentence contained unknown words ('daxing', 'blickets'), and participants were presented with a partial definition of one of them (that daxing is a neutral activity).

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This could be because the theory is wrong, because the effect of using first-person vs. third-person is very weak, or because participants were at floor already most people in all 6 conditions thought it was very unlikely that all the blickets were daxed, which can make it hard detect an effect -- though it didn't prevent us from finding the effect of the meaning of 'daxing'.

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This could be because the theory is wrong, because the effect of using first-person vs. third-person is very weak, or because participants were at floor already most people in all 6 conditions thought it was very unlikely that all the blickets were daxed, which can make it hard detect an effect -- though it didn't prevent us from finding the effect of the meaning of 'daxing'.

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As shown in the graph, whether daxing was described as positive, negative or neutral affected whether participants thought all the blickets were daxed (e,g, that some meant at least some rather than some-but-not-all) when Sally was talking about her own actions ("I daxed some of the blickets").

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Whereas if daxing is something to be ashamed of, then even if she daxed all of them, she might prefer to say "I daxed some of the blickets" as a way of obfuscating -- it's technically true, but misleading.

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