There are several more exciting directions possible for
situation perception researchers.
Future research on situation perception may benefit from the use of videos as stimuli.
Videos may provide a better alternative to static stimuli (e.g., pictures, TAT cards).
For one,
life is a dynamic process,
not static,
and videos would be more representative of reality.
Videos also contain more information than pictures.
This could have two possible effects on the results found in this study: the increased information provided by the video might increase agreement and decrease the size of unique construals,
or the increased information might reduce ambiguity and allow true perceptual differences to be observed more clearly.
Both of these options are possible, but the change from static stimuli to videos would be progress toward generalizability to real world.
However, given the results from Sherman and colleagues(2013),
which mirror the results here, this may not be imminently necessary.