Components of Perceived Interpersonal Interaction

This paper focuses on the perception of different psychological structures which, taken together, constitute social action from the observer\u27s perspective. Thus, action identification is conceptualized as a function of structural components (frame domain) and semantic features (semantic domain). Certain combinations of semantic features are prescriptive schemata for typical behavior. The participants were primed for prescriptive or non-prescriptive schemata, then engaged in a memory task. The memory task consisted of an acquisition phase (participants heard partial action event sentences) and a recognition phase (participants were asked to identify sentences they had heard). A higher false recognition of new sentences containing the primed prescriptive schema was found