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In their 2011 paper, Hart and Albarracín demonstrated in three experiments that grammatical aspect influences the perceived intentionality of actions. This was true for mundane behaviors (e.g., preparing dinner) but also criminal behaviors (e.g., shooting a gun). Hart and Albarracín found that actions described using imperfective aspect (e.g., he was shooting a gun) were perceived as more intentional than actions described using perfective aspect (e.g., he shot a gun). In this project we wanted to investigate whether grammatical aspect also influences perceptions of blame (a concept related to intentionality) in more daily and common situations (i.e., starting a fight instead of shooting a gun). Also, we wanted to broaden the context in which Hart and Albarracín studied the effect of grammatical aspect by using a richer discourse involving two agents rather than one. To do this, we created a single vignette (as Hart and Albarracín did) in which two agents hit each other, and then a third person gets injured. Our research question is whether the action of an agent described in imperfective aspect compared to perfective aspect leads to more perceived blame of the result of that action. NB. Experiments 1-2 were conducted before initiating the 2016 registered replication report (Eerland et al., 2016) and conducting the experiments described in Sherrill, Eerland, Zwaan, and Magliano (2015).
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