Children Adopt the Traits of Characters in a Narrative

Table 1

Descriptive statistics for trait adoption measures in Study 1.

	Mean (SD)
Professor behavior/trait composite; (possible range: 0–40)	28.2 (6.4)
Cheerleader behavior/trait composite; (possible range 0–40)	24.7 (6.1)
Time playing with Rubik’s cube; (in seconds; possible range: 0–300)	162.1 (100.0)
Time playing with yo-yo; (in seconds; possible range 0–300)	77.2 (78.9)
WISC matrix reasoning scaled score; (possible range: 0–35)	11.4 (3.4)