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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 22.
Published in final edited form as: Lang Cogn Neurosci. 2015 Aug 14;30(10):1273–1290. doi: 10.1080/23273798.2015.1062119

Table 1.

Sample Passages for Each Experimental Condition.

Text Condition Sample Passage
Forward Associated When the bear was awoke by the wandering chipmunk, he was filled with rage. The anger ruined her beautiful sweater.
Backward Associated When the bear was awoke by the wandering chipmunk, he was filled with anger. The rage ruined her beautiful sweater.
Baseline #1 The bear was wandering early when he woke up the chipmunk. The anger he had experienced in early spring resembled the chipmunks today.
Baseline #2 The bear was wandering early when he woke up the chipmunk. The rage he had experienced in early spring resembled the chipmunks today.

Note. The critical word (rain) is underlined and in bold at the beginning of the second sentence. The antecedent words in the paraphrase conditions are underlined.