TABLE 2.
Proportion of Children in Study 2 Giving Each Type of Response for All Measures, as a Function of Category Information Given
| Younger Characters |
Older Characters |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puppy | Girl | Boy | Dog | Girl | Boy | |
| Valence | ||||||
| Negative | .024 | .220 | .341 | .098 | .415 | .585 |
| Positive/neutral | .976 | .780 | .659 | .902 | .585 | .415 |
| Reference to intent | ||||||
| General intent language | .098 | .146 | .049 | .049 | .049 | .073 |
| Reference to deliberate intent | .000 | .024 | .024 | .000 | .000 | .049 |
| Reference to tangential intent | .098 | .122 | .024 | .049 | .049 | .024 |
| No intent language | .902 | .854 | .951 | .951 | .951 | .927 |
| Evaluative trait words | ||||||
| Yes | .000 | .024 | .146 | .049 | .049 | .341 |
| No | 1.000 | .976 | .854 | .951 | .951 | .659 |
| Severity | ||||||
| Very bad | .098 | .171 | .317 | .146 | .195 | .732 |
| A little bad | .341 | .488 | .659 | .610 | .707 | .244 |
| Not bad at all | .561 | .341 | .024 | .244 | .098 | .024 |
| Mental state inference | ||||||
| Yes | .122 | .293 | .683 | .171 | .415 | .829 |
| No | .878 | .707 | .317 | .829 | .585 | .171 |
| Stability inference | ||||||
| Yes | .390 | .439 | .659 | .537 | .659 | .854 |
| No | .610 | .561 | .341 | .463 | .341 | .146 |