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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neuropsychologia. 2016 Jan 26;84:36–43. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.01.029

Table 1.

Sample of general and personal sentences that are either consistent or inconsistent.

General
A pizza topping that many people dislike having on their pizza is anchovy/pepperoni.
A type of alcoholic drink that most people like to drink during a night out is beer/wine.
Animals that are popular as a stuffed toy are bears/snakes.
One very popular cake flavor is chocolate/banana.
A form of public transportation that many people hate using is the bus/subway.
A salad dressing that a majority of people like to put on their salad is ranch/caesar.
One type of sport that a lot of people like to watch is football/cricket.
Personal
Your least favorite science class in high school was biology/astronomy.
Foods that you like to eat as midnight snacks are cookies/pastas.
A vegetable that you really dislike is celery/lettuce.
A type of meat that you love to eat is turkey/lamb.
A type of bread that you dislike is rye/oatmeal.
For dessert, you like to eat cheesecake/popsicles.
A genre of film you like watching is horror/fantasy.