Bonding Through Language Imitation

Influence of Social Ostracism on Structural Priming

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ID19002018
AuthorsHeng Li (0000-0002-6074-3397, Sichuan International Studies University, Chongqing, China, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume42
Issue3
Pages324-341
Publication date2023-01-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Language and Social Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0261-927X • E-ISSN: 1552-6526
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0261927x231151408
OpenAlexW4316021227
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited56

This research investigated whether being excluded can increase language imitation and thus lead to a stronger structural priming effect. In Study 1, student participants recalling an experience of social exclusion showed a larger priming effect than those recalling an experience of social inclusion. Employing a larger, more diverse sample, Study 2 set out to conceptually replicate Study 1 by creating a concurrent experience of social exclusion through a computerized ball-toss game. It was found that excluded individuals demonstrated a stronger tendency to mimic the syntactic structure used by their interactional partner than included individuals. Taken together, these findings enrich an emergent stream of research that finds structural priming is not an independent cognitive process, but conditioned by various socio-cognitive factors

Cognition · Cognitive imitation · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Imitation · Ostracism · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology

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