Anthropology of ConsciousnessEarly View PERSONAL REFLECTION The Authors Account Of Himself August Franza, Corresponding Author Franza [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0002-1875-4519 English Literature, Stony Brook University, Brook, New York, USA Correspondence 100 Nicolls Rd, NY 11794-0701, USA. Email: protected]Search for more papers by this author First published: 06 2023 https://doi.org/10....

Ss who receive information about a person's traits and behaviors in a social context are likely to focus their attention on the pragmatic implications of this information (i.e., why the information was conveyed). To examine this hypothesis, Ss listened to a taped conversation in which a male target (T) and another speaker (O) exchanged anecdotal accounts of T's behavior. Ss typically used O's t...