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depth-charge illusion: a standalone construct

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Psycholinguistics

tendency to give a plausible but wrong reading to sentences with stacked negations and comparatives, such as no head injury is too trivial to be ignored.

In psycholinguistics, depth-charge illusion refers to tendency to give a plausible but wrong reading to sentences with stacked negations and comparatives, such as no head injury is too trivial to be ignored. This meaning comes from Wason (1979) in Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.[1]

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References

Wason, P. C., & Reich, S. S. (1979). A Verbal Illusion. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 31(4), 591-597. https://doi.org/10.1080/14640747908400750

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