Because certain facts about English morphology predict certain ways of thinking about causality, our main finding may seem to be a Whorfian one, a demonstration that language affects thought. However, we argue that it is not that but rather a demonstration that two modes of thought (the Agent-...
As the authors write, “Studies of beliefs about nonpoliticized facts will thus tend to show greater responsiveness to new or corrective information (especially on matters that are difficult to counterargue, such as the true value of relatively obscure statistics) than those that focus on the ...