Study 1 manipulated agent category through contrasting crime and charity vignettes

Evidence

Harmful agent: John has taken to crime. He spends his nights mugging individuals, often … Benevolent agent: John has taken to giving to charity. He spends his nights providing food and shelter to individuals. — Mansur Khamitov, Jeff D. Rotman, and Jared Piazza, Perceiving the Agency of Harmful Agents, 220

Categorization

• SHARE: A researcher working on agency attribution would want the exact procedure: vignettes contrasting a mugger and a charity giver, rated on seven cognitive trait items and Piazza moral standing items.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Mansur Khamitov, Jeff D. Rotman, and Jared Piazza, Perceiving the Agency of Harmful…, 220
• XREF: connects to: Recategorizing a target’s status shifts perceived agency and victimhood in complementary directions — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting: Divergent…, 37; Recategorizing a target by morally relevant features alters perceived agency. — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting: Divergent…, 51; Moral typecasting theory divides targets into agents, patients, and neutral roles for experimental comparison — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting: Divergent…, 141

Broader Connections

• Recategorizing a target by morally relevant features alters perceived agency. #expands (0.85) — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting, 51
• Recategorizing a target’s status shifts perceived agency and victimhood in complementary directions #expands (0.82) — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting, 37
• Moral typecasting theory divides targets into agents, patients, and neutral roles for experimental comparison #expands (0.80) — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting, 141