“…In attempting to discern the mechanisms underlying the SEE, some previous empirical work has shown that factors relating to the agent can moderate it (Cova, Lantian, & Boudesseul, 2016), such as personality, motives, and past behaviour (Brogaard, 2010;Hughes & Trafimow, 2012, 2015Shepherd, 2012), level of power (Robbins et al, 2017), skill (Guglielmo & Malle, 2010b), goodness or badness (Beebe & Jensen, 2012;Newman, De Freitas, & Knobe, 2015), contextual constraints on the agent (Monroe & Reeder, 2011), and social role (Rowe, Vonasch, & Turp, 2020). Participants may also strongly consider the agent's "I don't care" statement in representing the agent's attitudes (Sripada & Konrath, 2011) as it communicates an active and negative desire (Guglielmo & Malle, 2010a).…”