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This document summarizes a study that investigated whether patterns of cognitive bias known as contrast effects and assimilation effects influence the interpretation of verbal irony. The study tested whether these biasing effects, commonly observed in psychological research, could predict the pragmatic functions conveyed by different uses of verbal irony. It presented evidence that contrast effects and assimilation effects influence how situations described through verbal irony are perceived, and how much c

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Rinoa Leonhart

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