Illusory transparency in bilinguals: Does language of text affect bilingual readers’ perspective taking in reading?

• Main Authors: Estacio, Ma. Joahna Mante-, Bernardo, Allan Benedict I.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2015
• Subjects: Bilingualism; Thought and thinking; Priming (Psychology); Psycholinguistics; Reading; Perspective (Linguistics); Language and Literacy Education; Psychology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/2198; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/faculty_research/article/3197/type/native/viewcontent
• Institution: De La Salle University

Readers of narrative texts tend to incorrectly assess the knowledge of story characters, particularly as authors sometimes provide readers privileged information that is unknown to the story characters. This error, labeled the illusory transparency of intention Keysar (Cognitive Psychology 26:165-20...