Doctoral Dissertation Research: Formal Vocabulary as a Status Cue: Interactions with Diffuse Status Characteristics

SES 0081484PI：Michael J Lovaglia，Leda KanellakosStatus线索给出了个体的状态特征和任务能力的线索，并通过理论机制状态概括，已被证明影响群体结构和个人行为。这个项目调查正式词汇作为一种潜在的状态提示。初步结果表明，正式词汇确实提高了与演员相关的表演期望。这项研究调查了这一效应如何与其他身份特征相互作用；特别是，词汇产生的增强是否可以提高人们对地位较高的演员的期望，以及对地位较低的演员的期望。研究结果将提高对状态线索效应的理论解释的确定性，并对这种特殊的状态线索在不同的社会情境中的适用性有一定的理解。

SES 0081484PI: Michael J Lovaglia, Leda KanellakosStatus cues give clues to an individual's status characteristics and task abilities, and through the theoretical mechanism status generalization, have been shown to affect group structure and individual behavior. This project investigates formal vocabulary as a potential status cue. Preliminary results have shown that formal vocabulary does raise the performance expectations associated with an actor. This research investigates how that effect may interact with other status characteristics; in particular, whether the enhancement produced by vocabulary can raise expectations for actors already possessing high status as much as for actors possessing low status. Results will improve determinacy of theoretical explanations for effects of status cues, and will give some understanding of the applicability of this particular status cue in different kinds of social situations.