What kinds of information do we use in our everyday language comprehension? Word order, general knowledge, intonation, emotion... and plausibility. If you hear a restaurant employee ask "Can I bake your order?" you know that the resulting interpretation is implausible. It would be much more plausible to ask "Can I take your order?"
In this study, we ask you to rate the plausibility of 48 sentences describing events taking place in a playroom setting. We hope to use these ratings as the basis for a more extensive exploration of our use of plausibility in language processing. Less than 10 minutes!
Please participate in my undergraduate honors thesis looking at how accurate you are at forming first-impressions of people based on their social-networking profiles.
Go to http://www.YouJustGetMe.com and click “Featured Person”. Check out that person’s profile and then click “Open” on the brown clipboard to try to guess what his or her personality is like.
It is your choice whether to join the site (your guess will be saved for my thesis even though it says it will be discarded if you don't join). You can also add the application to your Facebook page and have your friends guess you there. YouJustGetMe is an online laboratory for students to use, so anything you do adds to our understanding of interpersonal perception.