Deer Who Are Distant
Response Congruency to Relative Pronouns Across Human and Nonhuman Entities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12418722 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Denise B Dillon (0000-0003-0191-7841, James Cook University Singapore, corresponding author), Josephine Pang (James Cook University Singapore Townsville Australia) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 5-6 |
| Pages | 447-471 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Society and Animals (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1063-1119 • E-ISSN: 1568-5306 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15685306-12341482 |
| OpenAlex | W2883045039 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
The study explores the influence of relative pronouns WHO or THAT on attributions of humanness across four categories of entities (unnamed nonhuman animals, named animals, machines, and people). Eighty-three university students performed an attribution task where they saw a priming phrase containing one category item with either WHO or THAT (e.g., deer who are ...) and then two trait attribute items (Uniquely Human UH /Human Nature HN word pairs; e.g., distant-nervous), from which they selected the trait attribute most meaningfully suited to the phrase. Data were analyzed with a repeated measures 2 (humanness: HN traits, UH traits) × 2 (pronoun: WHO , THAT ) × 4 (category: unnamed animals, named animals, machines, people) ANOVA . Participants responded relatively faster to HN trait attributes than to UH traits, and responded faster to named animals than to all other entities. Faster responses also ensued for people- WHO pairings than people- THAT pairings, and vice versa for named animals
Attribution · Biology · Cognitive psychology · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Phrase · Priming (agriculture · Pronoun · Trait · Word (group theory · Computer Science · Humor Studies and Applications · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |