Nairán Ramírez‐esparza
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3843722 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nairán Ramírez‐esparza |
| PRENOMES | Nairán |
| SOBRENOME | Ramírez‐esparza |
| ASSINATURA | ESPARZA N R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Connecticut |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5223-5640 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 86 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Neural mechanisms of bilingual speech perception
This study investigated the neural mechanisms underlying bilingual speech perception of competing phonological representations. A total of 57 participants were recruited, consisting of 30 English monolinguals and 27 Spanish-English bilinguals. Participants passively listened to stop consonants while watching movies in English and Spanish. Event-Related Potentials and sLORETA were used to measure and localize brain activity. Comparisons within bil…
Racializing disease
These findings highlight how implicit biases linking Chinese people and health threat manifest in the postpandemic context and shape subtle discriminatory behavior, even without explicit bias. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved)
Advancing Insights Into Accent Diversity and Its Interplay With Multicultural Experiences
Accents are sociocultural markers that signal identity and influence communication, and multicultural individuals may be more likely to encounter a variety of accents across different languages. This article reviews and integrates research on the psychology of accent and multicultural experiences. We first examine the social and communicative meanings of accents for multicultural individuals. Specifically, we discuss accents as cues for multicult…
What Are We Fighting For? Lay Theories About the Goals and Motivations of Anti-Racism Activism
Checking Multiple Boxes
Multicultural individuals frequently feel they must check multiple boxes when responding to identity questions. In this investigation, we collected narratives from 402 bicultural individuals about their experiences with multicultural identities and used automated text-analytic tools to examine the valence of the narratives (sentiment analysis) and the most prevalent themes used (Meaning Extraction Method). In addition, we examined the relationshi…
Toward a dynamic approach of person perception at zero acquaintance
Thin-slice methodology has provided us with abundant behavioral streams that self-reported measures would fail to capture, but traditional analytical paradigms in social and personality psychology cannot fully capture the temporal trajectories of person perception at zero acquaintance. At the same time, empirical investigations into how persons and situations jointly predict behavior enacted in situ are scarce, despite the importance of examining…
Strange new worlds
Everyday language input and production in 1001 children from 6 continents
Language is a universal human ability, acquired readily by young children who otherwise struggle with many basics of survival1,2. And yet, language is variable across individuals. Behavioral and experimental observations suggest that children’s linguistic skills vary with factors like socioeconomic status3, children’s gender4, and multilingualism5. But which factors really influence children’s day-to-day language use? Here we leverage speech tech…
A naturalistic observational study on food interactions and indicators of healthy and unhealthy eating in White-European and Latinx families
Language learning as a function of infant directed speech (IDS) in Spanish
Sendeanlat (#Tellyourstory)
You go before me, please
These results show that core features of Simpatía (kindness and focus on others) can be found at the behavioral level in the environment that Latina mothers face on a daily basis. Implications for the cultural self and future research are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
Culture and concealable stigmatized identities
Infant-directed speech in English and Spanish
It has been shown that monolingual caregivers exaggerate acoustic speech cues in infant-directed speech (IDS), but less is known about the characteristics of IDS in late second-language (L2) bilingual caregivers. Furthermore, there is inconsistency in the literature regarding voice onset time (VOT) of stop consonants in IDS. The present study explores VOT of English and Spanish stops in English monolingual and Spanish-dominant bilingual caregiver…
Food attitudes and well-being
Look who's talking
Language input is necessary for language learning, yet little is known about whether, in natural environments, the speech style and social context of language input to children impacts language development. In the present study we investigated the relationship between language input and language development, examining both the style of parental speech, comparing ‘parentese’ speech to standard speech, and the social context in which speech is dire…
Socio-Interactive Practices and Personality in Adult Learners of English With Little Formal Education
Drawing on a large corpus of video-recorded classroom data, the goal of this study was to understand the processes and mechanisms associated with learning in individuals who have had little education in their home countries. In order to accomplish this goal, we measured the socio-interactive behaviors and the expression of personality behaviors in learners who attended classes to learn English as a second language, and we analyzed the relationshi…
Cross-Cultural Constructions of Self-Schemas
A "spontaneous approach" was used to define self-schemas within and across cultures. Specifically, self-schemas were extracted from open-ended personality descriptions from Americans ( n = 560) and Mexicans ( n = 496) using the Meaning Extraction Method (MEM). The MEM relies on text analytic tools and factor analyses to learn about the most salient and chronically activated dimensions of personality that influence individuals' self-defining proce…
Are Mexicans more or less sociable than Americans? Insights from a naturalistic observation study
Paradox Lost
Simpatía is a cultural script that characterizes Hispanics as agreeable, friendly, sympathetic, and polite. However, on self-reports Hispanics score lower on Simpatía/Agreeableness than do non-Hispanics. This study reveals that it is the modesty within Simpatía that accounts for these paradoxical findings by driving down scores on Hispanics' self-reports. To test this idea, this study assesses Simpatía/Agreeableness in Mexican American bilinguals…
Are Women Really More Talkative Than Men?
Women are generally assumed to be more talkative than men. Data were analyzed from 396 participants who wore a voice recorder that sampled ambient sounds for several days. Participants' daily word use was extrapolated from the number of recorded words. Women and men both spoke about 16,000 words per day.
Do good stories produce good health
There is a culturally-held belief that good narratives are associated with good mental or physical health. Scores of studies have demonstrated that writing about emotional upheavals can have salutary health effects. Despite the writing-health relationship, there is scant evidence that expressive writing samples that are judged to be good narratives are themselves linked to health change. Across multiple studies, linguistic features of essays have…
Do bilinguals have two personalities? A special case of cultural frame switching
Latinx’s Attention to Social Context
Prior research shows that collectivistic East Asians are more sensitive to contextual information than individualistic Americans. However, limited studies have explored other collectivistic societies, such as the Latinx. Extending the current literature, we investigated attention to social context among Latinx living in the United States. Two tasks were used to test how Latinx (N=260) incorporate social context information when making attribution…
Do bilinguals have two personalities? A special case of cultural frame switching
Cross-Cultural Constructions of Self-Schemas
A "spontaneous approach" was used to define self-schemas within and across cultures. Specifically, self-schemas were extracted from open-ended personality descriptions from Americans ( n = 560) and Mexicans ( n = 496) using the Meaning Extraction Method (MEM). The MEM relies on text analytic tools and factor analyses to learn about the most salient and chronically activated dimensions of personality that influence individuals' self-defining proce…
Are Mexicans more or less sociable than Americans? Insights from a naturalistic observation study
Do good stories produce good health
There is a culturally-held belief that good narratives are associated with good mental or physical health. Scores of studies have demonstrated that writing about emotional upheavals can have salutary health effects. Despite the writing-health relationship, there is scant evidence that expressive writing samples that are judged to be good narratives are themselves linked to health change. Across multiple studies, linguistic features of essays have…
Infant-directed speech in English and Spanish
It has been shown that monolingual caregivers exaggerate acoustic speech cues in infant-directed speech (IDS), but less is known about the characteristics of IDS in late second-language (L2) bilingual caregivers. Furthermore, there is inconsistency in the literature regarding voice onset time (VOT) of stop consonants in IDS. The present study explores VOT of English and Spanish stops in English monolingual and Spanish-dominant bilingual caregiver…
Paradox Lost
Simpatía is a cultural script that characterizes Hispanics as agreeable, friendly, sympathetic, and polite. However, on self-reports Hispanics score lower on Simpatía/Agreeableness than do non-Hispanics. This study reveals that it is the modesty within Simpatía that accounts for these paradoxical findings by driving down scores on Hispanics' self-reports. To test this idea, this study assesses Simpatía/Agreeableness in Mexican American bilinguals…
Sendeanlat (#Tellyourstory)
You go before me, please
These results show that core features of Simpatía (kindness and focus on others) can be found at the behavioral level in the environment that Latina mothers face on a daily basis. Implications for the cultural self and future research are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
Food attitudes and well-being
Checking Multiple Boxes
Multicultural individuals frequently feel they must check multiple boxes when responding to identity questions. In this investigation, we collected narratives from 402 bicultural individuals about their experiences with multicultural identities and used automated text-analytic tools to examine the valence of the narratives (sentiment analysis) and the most prevalent themes used (Meaning Extraction Method). In addition, we examined the relationshi…
Advancing Insights Into Accent Diversity and Its Interplay With Multicultural Experiences
Accents are sociocultural markers that signal identity and influence communication, and multicultural individuals may be more likely to encounter a variety of accents across different languages. This article reviews and integrates research on the psychology of accent and multicultural experiences. We first examine the social and communicative meanings of accents for multicultural individuals. Specifically, we discuss accents as cues for multicult…
Latinx’s Attention to Social Context
Prior research shows that collectivistic East Asians are more sensitive to contextual information than individualistic Americans. However, limited studies have explored other collectivistic societies, such as the Latinx. Extending the current literature, we investigated attention to social context among Latinx living in the United States. Two tasks were used to test how Latinx (N=260) incorporate social context information when making attribution…
Socio-Interactive Practices and Personality in Adult Learners of English With Little Formal Education
Drawing on a large corpus of video-recorded classroom data, the goal of this study was to understand the processes and mechanisms associated with learning in individuals who have had little education in their home countries. In order to accomplish this goal, we measured the socio-interactive behaviors and the expression of personality behaviors in learners who attended classes to learn English as a second language, and we analyzed the relationshi…
Do good stories produce good health
There is a culturally-held belief that good narratives are associated with good mental or physical health. Scores of studies have demonstrated that writing about emotional upheavals can have salutary health effects. Despite the writing-health relationship, there is scant evidence that expressive writing samples that are judged to be good narratives are themselves linked to health change. Across multiple studies, linguistic features of essays have…
Do bilinguals have two personalities? A special case of cultural frame switching
Are Women Really More Talkative Than Men?
Women are generally assumed to be more talkative than men. Data were analyzed from 396 participants who wore a voice recorder that sampled ambient sounds for several days. Participants' daily word use was extrapolated from the number of recorded words. Women and men both spoke about 16,000 words per day.
Paradox Lost
Simpatía is a cultural script that characterizes Hispanics as agreeable, friendly, sympathetic, and polite. However, on self-reports Hispanics score lower on Simpatía/Agreeableness than do non-Hispanics. This study reveals that it is the modesty within Simpatía that accounts for these paradoxical findings by driving down scores on Hispanics' self-reports. To test this idea, this study assesses Simpatía/Agreeableness in Mexican American bilinguals…
Are Mexicans more or less sociable than Americans? Insights from a naturalistic observation study
Socio-Interactive Practices and Personality in Adult Learners of English With Little Formal Education
Drawing on a large corpus of video-recorded classroom data, the goal of this study was to understand the processes and mechanisms associated with learning in individuals who have had little education in their home countries. In order to accomplish this goal, we measured the socio-interactive behaviors and the expression of personality behaviors in learners who attended classes to learn English as a second language, and we analyzed the relationshi…
Cross-Cultural Constructions of Self-Schemas
A "spontaneous approach" was used to define self-schemas within and across cultures. Specifically, self-schemas were extracted from open-ended personality descriptions from Americans ( n = 560) and Mexicans ( n = 496) using the Meaning Extraction Method (MEM). The MEM relies on text analytic tools and factor analyses to learn about the most salient and chronically activated dimensions of personality that influence individuals' self-defining proce…
Look who's talking
Language input is necessary for language learning, yet little is known about whether, in natural environments, the speech style and social context of language input to children impacts language development. In the present study we investigated the relationship between language input and language development, examining both the style of parental speech, comparing ‘parentese’ speech to standard speech, and the social context in which speech is dire…
Food attitudes and well-being
Culture and concealable stigmatized identities
Infant-directed speech in English and Spanish
It has been shown that monolingual caregivers exaggerate acoustic speech cues in infant-directed speech (IDS), but less is known about the characteristics of IDS in late second-language (L2) bilingual caregivers. Furthermore, there is inconsistency in the literature regarding voice onset time (VOT) of stop consonants in IDS. The present study explores VOT of English and Spanish stops in English monolingual and Spanish-dominant bilingual caregiver…
Sendeanlat (#Tellyourstory)
You go before me, please
These results show that core features of Simpatía (kindness and focus on others) can be found at the behavioral level in the environment that Latina mothers face on a daily basis. Implications for the cultural self and future research are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
Language learning as a function of infant directed speech (IDS) in Spanish
Strange new worlds
Everyday language input and production in 1001 children from 6 continents
Language is a universal human ability, acquired readily by young children who otherwise struggle with many basics of survival1,2. And yet, language is variable across individuals. Behavioral and experimental observations suggest that children’s linguistic skills vary with factors like socioeconomic status3, children’s gender4, and multilingualism5. But which factors really influence children’s day-to-day language use? Here we leverage speech tech…
A naturalistic observational study on food interactions and indicators of healthy and unhealthy eating in White-European and Latinx families
Toward a dynamic approach of person perception at zero acquaintance
Thin-slice methodology has provided us with abundant behavioral streams that self-reported measures would fail to capture, but traditional analytical paradigms in social and personality psychology cannot fully capture the temporal trajectories of person perception at zero acquaintance. At the same time, empirical investigations into how persons and situations jointly predict behavior enacted in situ are scarce, despite the importance of examining…
What Are We Fighting For? Lay Theories About the Goals and Motivations of Anti-Racism Activism
Latinx’s Attention to Social Context
Prior research shows that collectivistic East Asians are more sensitive to contextual information than individualistic Americans. However, limited studies have explored other collectivistic societies, such as the Latinx. Extending the current literature, we investigated attention to social context among Latinx living in the United States. Two tasks were used to test how Latinx (N=260) incorporate social context information when making attribution…
Checking Multiple Boxes
Multicultural individuals frequently feel they must check multiple boxes when responding to identity questions. In this investigation, we collected narratives from 402 bicultural individuals about their experiences with multicultural identities and used automated text-analytic tools to examine the valence of the narratives (sentiment analysis) and the most prevalent themes used (Meaning Extraction Method). In addition, we examined the relationshi…
Advancing Insights Into Accent Diversity and Its Interplay With Multicultural Experiences
Accents are sociocultural markers that signal identity and influence communication, and multicultural individuals may be more likely to encounter a variety of accents across different languages. This article reviews and integrates research on the psychology of accent and multicultural experiences. We first examine the social and communicative meanings of accents for multicultural individuals. Specifically, we discuss accents as cues for multicult…
Neural mechanisms of bilingual speech perception
This study investigated the neural mechanisms underlying bilingual speech perception of competing phonological representations. A total of 57 participants were recruited, consisting of 30 English monolinguals and 27 Spanish-English bilinguals. Participants passively listened to stop consonants while watching movies in English and Spanish. Event-Related Potentials and sLORETA were used to measure and localize brain activity. Comparisons within bil…
Racializing disease
These findings highlight how implicit biases linking Chinese people and health threat manifest in the postpandemic context and shape subtle discriminatory behavior, even without explicit bias. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved)
Psychology (22 obras) · Social Psychology (14 obras) · Cultural Differences and Values (12 obras) · Developmental psychology (11 obras) · Linguistics (11 obras) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (8 obras) · Social Psychology (8 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras) · Personality (6 obras)