Table 4. Example of probes for experience items: Faces.
Probe | Probe Type | Response Type | Response Options | Participants |
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1. If these were the response options, which would you select? | Response | Closed | Yes/No | All |
2. In your own words, what does “seeing a face in a natural or human-made object” mean to you? | Paraphrase | Open | All | |
3. Briefly describe your experience of seeing a face in a natural or human-made object. | Example [“Yes”] |
Open | Selected “Yes” on first probe | |
4. Please give an example of what such an experience would be like, even though you have not had one. | Example [“No”] |
Open | Selected “No” on first probe |