Fig. 1.

Illustration of a trial from the social sequencing (top panel) and non-social sequencing (bottom panel) conditions. Left panel: Participants were presented six action sentences (randomly ordered) and were required to select the four sentences that fit best with the person trait/object feature and to order them in the correct order (ignoring the trait-inconsistent sentences) using two consecutive button presses on a four-button response box (with responses indicated on a blue background). Middle panel: The ordering as chosen by a participant (the selected four sentences were ordered from top to bottom and marked by squares surrounding them). Right panel: After this, participants were asked to rate their confidence on a 4-point confidence rating scale.