Language use in intergroup contexts
The linguistic intergroup bias
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6197596 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Maa (0000-0001-9802-5246), Daniela Salvi, Luciano Arcuri (University of Trieste), Gün R Semin (0000-0002-5304-5566, University of Sussex) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 981-993 |
| Publication date | 1989-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0022-3514.57.6.981 |
| OpenAlex | W4293117726 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 193 |
| References cited | 22 |
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 Semin and Fiedler's (1988a) 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
In-group favoritism · Linguistics · Prejudice (legal term) · Social group · Social identity theory · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Psychology · Social Psychology
Us and them
From the individual to the group
Intergroup Relations
Intergroup Bias
Social Psychology and Language
Prejudice and Stereotyping in Everyday Communication
Dissecting Discrimination
The psychology of intergroup conflict
Implicit social cognition
The Thermometer of Social Relations
Incivility on Facebook and political polarization
Reducing intergroup conflict
There Are Many Ways to See the Forest for the Trees
GLOMO sys
Implicit Social Cognition
The Social Distance Theory of Power
Linguistic Intergroup Bias
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Intergroup Communication
Agenda 2000—communication
Normative regulations and the use of language in describing political events
Multilingualism and Ethnic Prejudice
Filthy Lapdogs,” “Jerks,” and “Hitler”
Investigating the Relationship between Resident Physician Implicit Bias and Language Use during a Clinical Encounter with Hispanic Patients
Reconstruing Intolerance
Toward a Broader View of Social Stereotyping
Predispositions, partisan media, and political beliefs about female presidency in South Korea and the United States
Abstract or concrete? The effects of language style and service context on continuous usage intention for AI voice assistants
Toward Parsimony in Bias Research
Investigating American and Chinese Subjects’ explicit and implicit perceptions of AI-Generated artistic work
Abstract concepts
Stereotypes and self-fulfilling prophecies in the Bayesian brain
Language patterns of outgroup prejudice
Spring Break or Heart Break? Extending Valence Bias to Emotional Words
Porous Chambers, Echoes of Valence and Stereotypes
Measuring Abstract Mind-Sets Through Syntax
Verb Intergroup Bias
Gendered subtle bias in Danish TV election debates
Different size, different language? Linguistic ingroup favoritism and outgroup derogation by majority and minority groups
Linguistic evidence of in-group bias in English and Spanish Wikipedia articles about international conflicts
Prejudice in disguise
Gender biases and linguistic sexism in political communication
From I to We
The Process of The Transfer of Hate Speech to Demonization and Social Polarization
All the Makings of an Eventual NFL Starter
Representations of the Ergenekon Case in Turkey, 2007–11
Expressing Prejudice through the Linguistic Intergroup Bias
The lay historian explains intergroup behavior
Linguistic Inference Framing
When People Would Rather Switch Than Fight
Positive imagined contact is actively chosen
Seeing bias in irony
When Do We Communicate Stereotypes? Influence of the Social Context on the Linguistic Expectancy Bias
Increasing Group Entitativity
Attributions of responsibility and punishment for ingroup and outgroup members
Keeping it to Ourselves
A longitudinal study of “we‐talk” as a predictor of marital satisfaction
What Computational Linguists Can Learn from Psychologists (and Vice Versa)
A Latent Semantic Analysis of Gender Stereotype-Consistency and Narrowness in American English
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A Parsimonious Theory Can Account for Complex Phenomena
Implicit Attributions and Biases
The Intersection of Communication and Social Psychology
News Media’s Relationship with Stereotyping
In Consideration of Social Context
Stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination at the seam between the centuries
The negation bias
The question–answer paradigm
Using abstract language signals power
Word order denotes relevance differences
A multi‐analyses approach of inductive/deductive asymmetry in the affective priming paradigm
The function of vertical and horizontal space to social group identity
Delegitimisation of Disliked Political Organisations Through Biased Language and Acronyming
Avoiding bias in robot speech
“Because that’s who they are”
Decoding Narrative Statements in Child Protective Services Hotline Calls
Judgments of a Relationship Partner
Understanding Polarizing Language
The Content of Gender Stereotypes Embedded in Language Use
Deceptive (De)humanization
Subtle Linguistic Cues Affecting Gender In(Equality)
What do i think you're doing? Action identification and mind attribution
Effects of communication goals and expectancies on language abstraction
Linguistic Intergroup Bias in Political Communication
Narrative Language as an Expression of Individual and Group Identity
God’s plan? The role of emotional repression in forming and sustaining religious beliefs
Language as a Cognitive and Behavioral Structuring Resource
Years of Multiple Social Categorization
The strategic role of language abstraction in achieving symbolic and practical goals
The Linguistic Category Model, its Bases, Applications and Range
Cognitive and Social Consequences of the Need for Cognitive Closure
Explaining Asymmetric Intergroup Judgments through Differential Aggregation
The ‘ultimate attribution error’? A review of the literature on intergroup causal attribution
The Negation Bias in Stereotype Maintenance
Social Identity and the Linguistic Intergroup Bias
Reexamining the Use of Tentative Language in Emails
Does the Linguistic Expectancy Bias Extend to a Second Language
Intergroup Threat and the Linguistic Intergroup Bias
Identity, Cognition, and Language in Intergroup Context
Portrayal of Immigrants in Italian Newspapers
Communicating racism
The psychological causality implicit in language
Social perception and phenomenal causality.
Social Psychology of Intergroup Relations
Prejudice, discrimination, and racism
An Integrative Theory of Intergroup Conflict
Social Categorization
Rediscovering the Social Group
The Ultimate Attribution Error
Recent unobtrusive studies of Black and White discrimination and prejudice
Implicit Causality in Language
Language use and reification of social information
Social Categorization and Behavioral Episodes
Social categorization and memory for in-group and out-group behavior
Differential social perception and attribution of intergroup violence
Recall for confirming events
The cognitive functions of linguistic categories in describing persons
Intergroup discrimination and self-esteem in the minimal group paradigm
Inferring category attributes from exemplar attributes
In-group bias in the minimal intergroup situation
A Bayesian analysis of attribution processes
Ethnocentrism and Causal Attribution in a South Indian Context
| Unique citing works | 193 |
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| Citations per year | 5,36 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2026 (37) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 191 |