title: A Comment on Eerland et al. (2016).
abstract: People imagine criminal behavior in greater detail and ascribe more blame to criminals when a description of a crime is written using the imperfective verb aspect (Hart & Albarracín, 2011, Experiment 3). An initiative to reproduce these findings conducted by Eerland et al. (2016) yielded a lack of replication. Eerland et al. have suggested that the original effect was likely driven by a Type I error produced by methodological aspects of the experiment, including low sample size. Recent conceptual replications of Hart and Albarracín's effect (Sherrill, Eerland, Zwaan, & Magliano, 2015), however, might imply the effect could be contingent on sample characteristics.
authors.affiliation: University of Alabama wphart@gmail.com.
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hart
mesh_terms: D003415:Crime / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007802:Language; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D012938:Social Perception
keywords: aspect; person perception; verbs