Children Adopt the Traits of Characters in a Narrative

Table 3

Descriptive statistics for trait adoption measures in Study 2.

	Mean (SD)
Professor behavior/trait composite; (possible range: 0–40)	29.3 (6.6)
Cheerleader behavior/trait composite; (possible range 0–40)	24.5 (6.9)
Time playing with Rubik’s cube; (in seconds; possible range: 0–300)	155.6 (93.6)
Time playing with yo-yo; (in seconds; possible range 0–300)	109.7 (87.6)
WISC matrix reasoning scaled score; (possible range: 0–35)	11.9 (3.0)

Note: means are collapsed across instructions conditions, because no significant differences were observed.