Effect of verb and object meaning on the connotative evaluation of sentence subjects.

Abstract

Effect of presentation schedule on transfer after successive discrimination training in humans.

Improving Comprehension for Jury Instructions

“…Finally, Gumenik and Dolinsky (1971) found that the evaluative meanings of a verb tend to affect the evaluative meaning of logical subjects. Good verbs tend to change the evaluative meaning of logical subjects in a positive direction and vice versa.…”