Script Combination Stories

<p><strong>Stories are combinations of scripts</strong>: We wrote 16 stories, each consisting of a unique combination of one of the four location scripts and one of the four social scripts. Location scripts were all common sequences of activities that occur in a specific kind of place to accomplish a specific goal: eating at a restaurant, catching a flight at an airport, shopping at a Grocery Store, and attending a Lecture. Social schemas were all common sequences of events for changes in relationships and were not constrained to a particular location: initiating a breakup, proposing, conducting a business deal, and experiencing a “meet cute”. Each script consisted of a temporal sequence of four events, for example the airport script contains the following events: Walking into the airport, Going through security, Walking to the gate, Boarding the plane (see Schema_Events.pdf for a table of all events for each script).  </p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Events from both scripts occur simultaneously</strong>: Each story proceeded through the four events of each script in parallel. The event onsets for the two scripts were interleaved and never coincided in the same sentence (except for the very first sentence, which started the first event for both scripts).  Each story had a unique set of characters and a unique setting, such that the only similarities between stories came from overlap in their event scripts.</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Stories were presented as audio narratives:</strong> Each story is on average ~3 minutes long. All stories were read by the same professional voice actor. While participants listened to the story they were presented with a still screen displaying the title of the story and the pictures and names of the two main characters for that story.</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Determining which scripts are in each story</strong>: You can determine which scripts make up each story from the two digit name of each story. The tens place denotes which social script is used (10 = Breakup, 20 = Proposal, 30 = Business Deal, 40 = Meetcute), and the ones place indicates which location script (1 = Restaurant, 2 = Airport, 3 = Grocery Store, 4 = Lecture Hall). For example, Story 14 contains the Lecture Hall script because of the 4, and the Breakup script because of the 10. </p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>File format for stories:</strong> Each story consists of separate files for each sentence. </p> <p>Sentence one has the suffix "_1", sentence 2, "_2", etc. </p>