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implicit causality
implicit causality Implicit causality is the tendency of some interpersonal verbs to suggest which person in a sentence is seen as the likely cause of an event.
Implicit causality is the tendency of some interpersonal verbs to suggest which person in a sentence is seen as the likely cause of an event. This verb-based bias can shape how people interpret later references such as pronouns, especially in causal sentence contexts.