ABSTRACT
Narrative comprehension has been an area of continuous inquiry in cognitive psychology since the late 1970s (e.g., Bower, Black, & Turner, 1979; Mandler & Johnson, 1977). During the last 15 years, much of this research has focused on the role that causality plays in the representation and processing of narratives. This is largely due to the influence of Trabasso and his colleagues (Trabasso & Sperry, 1985; Trabasso & van den Broek, 1985; van den Broek, 1988) who demonstrated empirically that:
1. Narrative states and events with many causal connections to the rest of the narrative are remembered better and perceived as more important than otherwise similar states and events.
