The influence of movement on perceptions of aliveness: a replication and extension of Goldberg & Thompson-Schill (2009)
Sophia M. Shatek,
Thomas A. Carlson
Abstract:Children often mistake things that appear to move without visible external intervention, such as clouds, for being alive. Interestingly, these mistakes are still made by adults under time pressure. Goldberg and Thompson-Schill (2009) demonstrated this using a rapid classification task, and showed that adults make more errors when judging if plants and moving natural things are alive (compared to animals, and still or artificial things). Over four experiments, we explored Goldberg and Thompson-Schill’s (2009) p… Show more
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