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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 9.
Published in final edited form as: J Mem Lang. 2007 Apr;56(3):410–435. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2006.08.007

Table 3.

A number of measures by condition for Study 2

Dependent variable External cause
Internal cause
Easy
Hard
Easy
Hard
M SE M SE M SE M SE
Proportion reduced relative 0.64 0.04 0.19 0.06 0.52 0.05 0.17 0.04
Reduced relative acceptability 6.7 0.1 5.9 0.3 6.5 0.1 6.3 0.2
Other acceptability 6.5 0.2 6.3 0.1 6.5 0.1 6.1 0.1
Unreduced/reduced similarity 4.8 0.1 3.9 0.5 4.9 0.1 4.9 0.1
Other similarity 4.1 0.1 3.6 0.2 4.3 0.1 3.9 0.1
Unreduced relative acceptability 6.5 0.1 6.2 0.1 6.4 0.1 5.6 0.2
Passive acceptability 6.8 0.1 6.5 0.1 6.6 0.1 5.8 0.2

Note. Acceptability was rated on a seven-point scale, whereas similarity was rated on a five-point scale. We used different scales for acceptability and similarity to reduce confusion for participants.