Selection Bias in Choice of Words: Evaluations of ''I'' and ''We'' Differ Between Contexts, but ''They'' Are Always Worse  

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Senden, Marie Gustafsson ; Lindholm, Torun ; Sikstrom, Sverker

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Language and Social Psychology (Full Text) vol. 33 no. 1 (Jan. 2014), page 49 –67.
Topik: pronouns in social categorization; evaluative sentence generating task; linguistic bias; intergroup attitudes; intergroup bias
Fulltext: Selection Bias in Choice of Words.pdf (340.76KB)

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In everyday life, people use language to communicate evaluative messages about social categories. A selection bias in language across two social dimensions not previously integrated was examined: a self-inclusive/self-exclusive dimension and an individual/collective dimension. Pronouns as markers for social categories were adopted(I, We, He/She, and They), and a new measure was developed (the Evaluative Sentence Generating task) to investigate the evaluative context selected for the pronouns. Results demonstrate that individuals select a more positive context for self-inclusive than self-exclusive pronouns and a more positive context for individual than collective pronouns. However, in an interpersonal context, evaluative differences between I and We diminished, whereas in an intergroup condition the evaluative gap between self-inclusive and self-exclusive pronouns was magnified.

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