## Experimental Materials ## **Please download materials before printing them, otherwise they will not format correctly.** This folder contains a list of the statements used in Experiment 1a and 1b, along with their associated characteristics. **Experiment 1a** This folder contains: - experimenter instructions - study information sheet - the two sets (A and B) of paper-and-pencil materials used for the lab study both in the UK and USA - prize drawer contact sheet - debriefs - raw data entry files - details of the additional, unrelated tasks completed by USA participants following completion of tasks for this study **Experiment 1b** This folder contains: - the Qualtrics scripts used for the online study both in the UK and USA. Note that script is for content information only. - to see how the experiments are formatted, you can access the [UK survey][1] and [USA survey][2]. ---------- Materials piloting, statement verification, coding ------------------------------- Before conducting the study, we following the same procedures used by Hansen & Wanke (2010) to ensure that the concrete versions of the statements were seen as more concrete than were the abstract ones. We combined all trivia items into a single set of 78 (52 original + 18 USA-specific items + 8 Britain-specific items), and then created two sets of 78 items (set A and set B) so that the concrete and abstract version of each item appeared in different sets. Four student raters (2 for set A and 2 for set B), who were blind to the experimental hypothesis were briefly trained using the materials in this folder. They then independently coded each item as per the "[CoderInstructions][3]" document (see also [this explanation][4]). [1]: https://bit.ly/2NrUKmc [2]: https://bit.ly/2PLgrPF [3]: https://osf.io/pm3gx/ [4]: https://osf.io/kbq3h/