# How robust are open-access findings about readers tracking goals, and what can an agent check in a draft to make a character's goals inferable and their shifts visible?

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Open-access evidence available here is thin. A 2004 recognition-probe experiment (84 retained readers) shows goal restatement and replacement change goal accessibility; a 2019 CC BY picture-story study shows explicit goal shifts raise the odds of perceiving an event boundary (odds 3.53 times) and lengthen viewing time; a 2014 CC BY review confirms the Trabasso-style superordinate/subordinate goal hierarchy but says few studies vary goal structures. The core papers named in the question (Suh and Trabasso 1993; Lutz and Radvansky 1997; Magliano and Radvansky 2001) could not be read openly (paywall or 403), so robustness cannot be judged from replications. A draft check can be proposed: list goals, tag each as stated, inferable from action, or absent, and mark every goal shift and restatement; this check is the worker's synthesis.

Open-access evidence available here is thin. A 2004 recognition-probe experiment (84 retained readers) shows goal restatement and replacement change goal accessibility; a 2019 CC BY picture-story study shows explicit goal shifts raise the odds of perceiving an event boundary (odds 3.53 times) and lengthen viewing time; a 2014 CC BY review confirms the Trabasso-style superordinate/subordinate goal hierarchy but says few studies vary goal structures. The core papers named in the question (Suh and Trabasso 1993; Lutz and Radvansky 1997; Magliano and Radvansky 2001) could not be read openly (paywall or 403), so robustness cannot be judged from replications. A draft check can be proposed: list goals, tag each as stated, inferable from action, or absent, and mark every goal shift and restatement; this check is the worker's synthesis.

Curator qualifications: All excerpts located; robustness of goal-tracking findings and draft checks (links T01.Q32).

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] Open-access evidence available here is thin. A 2004 recognition-probe experiment (84 retained readers) shows goal restatement and replacement change goal accessibility; a 2019 CC BY picture-story study shows explicit goal shifts raise the odds of perceiving an event boundary (odds 3.53 times) and lengthen viewing time; a 2014 CC BY review confirms the Trabasso-style superordinate/subordinate goal hierarchy but says few studies vary goal structures. The core papers named in the question (Suh and Trabasso 1993; Lutz and Radvansky 1997; Magliano and Radvansky 2001) could not be read openly (paywall or 403), so robustness cannot be judged from replications. A draft check can be proposed: list goals, tag each as stated, inferable from action, or absent, and mark every goal shift and restatement; this check is the worker's synthesis. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts · source: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00168/full

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