Table 1.

Questions of faux pas test

	Participants were asked to answer the following questions for each story read by the research assistant:
Q1.	Detect a faux pas: “In the story, did anyone say something that they should not have said or something awkward?”
Q2.	Identify who committed the faux pas: “Who said something that they should not have said or something awkward?”a
Q3.	Interpret the recipient’s mental state: “Why shouldn’t he/she have said it?”a
Q4.	Understand the speaker’s intention: “Why do you think he/she said it?”a
Q5. & Q6.	Recall specific story content, for example: “Who won the competition?”b

^aThis question was only asked if the answer to Q1 was yes.

^bControl questions.