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The study involves an experimental manipulation of goal-achievement by presenting two videos in which a group of dots succeed (goal-achievement condition) vs. not-succeed (goal-failure condition) in crossing a wall. Participants will be presented with either of the conditions. The videos are further manipulated with respect to the direction followed by the dots-the dots can move either from left to right (LR condition) or from right to left (RL condition), resulting in 4 experimental conditions. After being assigned to one of the conditions, participants will be asked to rate the dots on 1) humanness dimension, and 2) on traits that are validated as referring to agency, communion, liking, and respect. We examine 1) whether goal-achievement manipulation- through agency and communion ascriptions- predicts humanness attribution to non-human objects, and 2) whether dots direction (i.e., left-to-right for English speakers) might influence agency ascription to the dots. It is hypothesized that 1) in the goal-achievement (vs. goal-failure) condition the dots will be assigned higher humanness and respect (agency hypothesis). 2) In goal-achievement + LR condition (vs. RL condition), dots will be assigned higher agency which in turn will increase humanness attribution because the dots direction is in line with participants script directions (i.e., left to right, Spatial Agency Bias hypothesis). 3) Based on our previous study, we predict that agency ascriptions will mediate the effect of the goal-achievement condition on humanness attribution (mediation hypothesis). |
