Mood Shapes Reliance on Syntactic and Semantic Cues in Sentence Comprehension.

Behav Sci (Basel) · 2025 · PMC12649602 · PMID 41301395

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hedged sentences

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closest p · 1.7× alpha

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boldest claim

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marginally significantp = 0.085so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

In the negative valence condition, IC showed a marginally significant effect ( β = 0.23, SE = 0.13, z = 1.73, p = 0.085).

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failed to reach significancep = 0.583not close (p > 0.1)

For participants with lower IC, the plausibility effect was significant for consistent sentences ( β = 1.45, SE = 0.36, z = −4.02, p < 0.001) but failed to reach significance in inconsistent ones ( β = 0.19, SE = 0.34, z = −0.55, p = 0.583), yielding a smaller variation of 1.26 log-odds units.

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failed to reach statistical significanceno p-value reported

However, this tendency failed to reach statistical significance, possibly because our experimental task was not cognitively demanding enough to challenge participants’ WM capacity.

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