LANGUAGE USE IN INTERGROUP CONTEXTS - THE LINGUISTIC INTERGROUP BIAS
LANGUAGE USE IN INTERGROUP CONTEXTS - THE LINGUISTIC INTERGROUP BIAS
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DOI:
10.1037/0022-3514.57.6.981
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发表时间:
1989-12-01
影响因子:
7.6
通讯作者:
SEMIN, G
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作者:
MAASS, A;SALVI, D;SEMIN, G
Three experiments examine how the type of language used to describe in-group and out-group behaviors contributes to the transmission and persistence of social stereotypes. Two experiments tested the hypothesis that people encode and communicate desirable in-group and undesirable out-group behaviors more abstractly than undesirable in-group and desirable out-group behaviors. Experiment 1 provided strong support for this hypothesis using a fixed-response scale format controlling for the level of abstractness developed from GR Semin and K. Fiedler's (see record 1988-20078-001) linguistic category model. Experiment 2 yielded the same results with a free-response format. Experiment 3 demonstrated the important role that abstract versus concrete communication plays in the perpetuation of stereotypes. The implications of these findings and the use of the linguistic category model are discussed for the examination of the self-perpetuating cycle of stereotypes in communication processes.(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)