What is agentic about the Spatial Agency Bias? How pragmatic relevance contributes to the spatial representations of actions
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چکیده
The mental imagination of (social) actions has been shown to follow a left-to-right trajectory, with the thematic agent associated left position (Spatial Agency Bias, Suitner & Maass in Advances Experimental Social Psychology, 53, 2016, p. 245–301). For example, individuals asked choose picture that visualizes sentence “Tom kicks George” tend an image where agent, Tom, is positioned on left-hand side rather than right-hand side. However, as alternative role such findings may reflect representation following pragmatic relevance. Specifically, perspective holds word order and syntactic functions are strategic devices communicate element important for sentence. Thus, positioning described picture-matching task actually agent's relevance instead agency per se. As test, we vary whether sentences written active versus passive voice. Results from five studies indicate voice results tendency place picture. Instead, acted-upon person A sixth experiment reveals voice, still seen more agentic receiver, but considered less relevant. congruent proposed account. Implications Spatial Bias well building representations general discussed.
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Social Psychology
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0046-2772', '1099-0992']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2723