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Implicit and Explicit Attitudes toward Hearing Aids: The Role of Media Language Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2021-04-15 Claudia Manzi, Roberta Adorni, Gabriele Di Cicco, Valeria Milano, Efisio Manunta, Fabio Montermini, Maja Becker, Patrizia Steca
Despite widespread hearing problems among older adults, only a minority uses hearing aids. The stigma associated with such aids represents a key factor modulated by language. The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of different forms of media communication on both implicit and explicit attitudes toward hearing aids. A preliminary analysis highlighted an over-representation of “technical”
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Is Group-Directed Praise Always Welcome? Reactions to Ingroup and Outgroup Praise Depend on Linguistic Abstraction Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2021-04-07 Silvia Moscatelli, Monica Rubini
This research examined how recipients reacted to group-directed praise formulated by ingroup or outgroup members and varying in linguistic abstraction. Study 1 (N = 81) showed that ingroup praise was perceived as more sincere when formulated in abstract (vs. concrete) terms, whereas outgroup praise formulated in abstract terms was seen as less sincere than concrete praise. In Study 2 (N = 89), recipients
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You Liar! Attributions of Lying Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2021-03-11 Drew A. Curtis
Language is vastly important in shaping cognitions. The word “liar” is used in a variety of social contexts and deception literature, eliciting numerous images, and is rarely the object of research. Two studies explored how people think of the social cognitive label of “liar.” In Study 1, the actor-observer difference in the liar attribution was examined, in how people view their own lying compared
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Words to Submit by: Language Patterns Indicate Conference Acceptance for the International Communication Association Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2021-01-15 David M. Markowitz
Language patterns of complexity and confidence often indicate positive persuasion outcomes across settings. For example, such word types correlate with funding support from grant agencies and online crowds. This paper tested the preregistered hypothesis that language patterns of complexity and confidence also relate to a conference submission’s acceptance. Replicating and extending prior work, submissions
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Foreign Language Usage and National and European Identification in the Netherlands Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2021-01-05 Diana Cárdenas, Maykel Verkuyten
Multilingualism is considered a pathway to European identification but might also undermine national identification. We examine regular foreign language usage and two psychological constructs that can explain the relationship between multilingualism and European and national identification in the Netherlands: greater mental openness and a deprovincialized worldview. Using structural equation modeling
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The Language of Derogation and Hate: Functions, Consequences, and Reappropriation Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-12-28 Carmen Cervone, Martha Augoustinos, Anne Maass
Over the last decades, the use of explicit derogatory language (e.g., hate speech, slurs, micro-insults) has risen in many countries. We provide an overview on blatant language discrimination, including its psychological antecedents and consequences. After presenting a working definition of derogatory language and describing its prevalence, we discuss the social functions it serves and the role it
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Prologue: History, Themes, Analysis, and Rationale Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-12-28 Howard Giles, Karolina Hansen, Daniel Angus, Cindy Gallois
In this Special Issue, we commemorate 40 years of publishing research in the Journal of Language & Social Psychology (JLSP). We first provide a brief glimpse of the history of the field of language and social psychology and the emergence of JLSP within it. This is then developed further by exploring the themes—and the relationships between them—arising over the four decades of the journal, by means
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Gendered Tweets: Computational Text Analysis of Gender Differences in Political Discussion on Twitter Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-11-03 Lingshu Hu, Michael Wayne Kearney
Politics is an area that is traditionally believed to be gender divided. According to intergroup communication theory, this gender-salient context might cause differences in political communications between genders. Moreover, the internet and social media, which creates a computer-mediated interactive context, might also impact the traditional gender discrepancies in political discourse. This study
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Language, Psychology, and New New Media: The Hyperpersonal Model of Mediated Communication at Twenty-Five Years Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-11-02 Joseph B. Walther, Monica T. Whitty
Research on the hyperpersonal model originally described how the substitution of language for nonverbal cues, necessitated by text-based computer-mediated communication systems, transforms users’ reception, self-presentation, composition, and reciprocal reinforcement of messages in ways that create socially desirable relationships online. This article reviews the model after 25 years. It explicates
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Reporting Microaggressions: Kinship Carers’ Complaints about Identity Slights Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-10-28 Julie Wilkes, Susan A. Speer
The psychological concept of “microaggression” has refocused interest on what counts as prejudicial action. It redirects attention from standard socio-cognitive explanations of overt prejudice among social groups toward recipients’ perspectives of largely unwitting and subtle everyday racism. Microaggression studies define common implicit identity challenges faced by minority groups, including kinship
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Ethnolinguistic Vitality, Identity and Power: Investment in SLA Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-10-28 Richard Clément, Bonny Norton
This article concerns the relationship between social context, identity and intergroup relations. It reviews early formulations pertaining to contextual influences and proceeds to examine vitality theory, specifically, ethnolinguistic vitality (EV). The ensuing discussion considers objective aspects of EV such as the demographic representation of a group and delineates multiple influences modulating
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Natural Language Analysis and the Psychology of Verbal Behavior: The Past, Present, and Future States of the Field Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-10-28 Ryan L. Boyd, H. Andrew Schwartz
Throughout history, scholars and laypeople alike have believed that our words contain subtle clues about what we are like as people, psychologically speaking. However, the ways in which language has been used to infer psychological processes has seen dramatic shifts over time and, with modern computational technologies and digital data sources, we are on the verge of a massive revolution in language
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Linguistic Markers in Women’s Discussions on Miscarriage and Abortion Illustrate Psychological Responses to Their Experiences Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-10-26 Kate G. Blackburn, Weixi Wang, Rhea Pedler, Rachel Thompson, Diana Gonzales
This study analyzed thousands of women’s online conversations in relation to their miscarriage or abortion experiences, classified as unplanned and planned traumas, respectively. Linguistic Inquiry Word Count text analysis revealed that people experiencing a planned trauma use distancing language patterns in higher frequency and engage in emotion regulation more than those who experienced trauma unexpectedly
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Toward a Century of Language Attitudes Research: Looking Back and Moving Forward Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-10-23 Marko Dragojevic, Fabio Fasoli, Jennifer Cramer, Tamara Rakić
The study of language attitudes is concerned with the social meanings people assign to language and its users. With roots in social psychology nearly a century ago, language attitudes research spans several academic disciplines and draws on diverse methodological approaches. In an attempt to integrate this work and traverse disciplinary boundaries and methodological proclivities, we propose that language
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Emotion and its Management: The Lens of Language and Social Psychology Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-10-22 Cindy Gallois, Eric J. Vanman, Elise K. Kalokerinos, Katharine H. Greenaway
In this paper, we briefly review the large research literature on emotion in social psychology, and show how it is now firmly embedded in language and communication. As a springboard, we look at the history of emotion studies in JLSP. Then, we consider theory and methodology, and evaluate how standard and more recent methods of measurement have led to new ways of looking at the communication of emotion
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The Identity Crisis in Language Motivation Research Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-10-19 Ali H. Al-Hoorie, Phil Hiver, Tae-Young Kim, Peter De Costa
The 40th anniversary of the Journal of Language and Social Psychology occurs around the corner of another anniversary, the language motivation field reaching 60 years. At this occasion, we pause to reflect on the contribution of language motivation research to language teaching practice. We argue that this contribution has been negligible and put forward two main reasons. The first is related to an
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Interactional Adjustment: Three Approaches in Language and Social Psychology Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-10-19 Jessica Gasiorek, Ann Weatherall, Bernadette Watson
Interactional adjustment refers to people’s tendency to adjust, or adapt, their communication behavior in social interactions. In recent years, three distinctive approaches to this topic that have featured prominently in the Journal of Language and Social Psychology are communication accommodation theory (CAT), language style matching (LSM), and discursive psychology using conversation analysis (DPCA)
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Language—AND—Social Psychology: Epilogue Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-10-07 Jake Harwood, Karen Tracy
This Epilogue discusses the papers in the Special Issue (JLSP 40th Anniversary) in terms of the broader field of language and social psychology. It reflects on the key terms (“language” and “social psychology”) in terms of how they intersect and the relative emphasis on each in work published in JLSP. We also present an argument for increasing the consideration of context in language and social psychology
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Understanding the Role of Linguistic Complexity in Famous Trial Outcomes Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-09-13 Alivia Zubrod, Lucian Gideon Conway, III, Kathrene R. Conway, David Ailanjian
Famous trials not only generate immense popularity and intrigue, they also have the power to change history. Surprisingly, little research examines the use of complex language during these culturally-significant trial outcomes. In the present study, we helped fill in this gap by evaluating the relationship between attorneys’ use of integratively complex language and trial outcomes. Using the well-validated
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Language Attitudes in a Lingua Franca: The Case of Black South African College Students Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-08-31 Pedro Álvarez-Mosquera, Alejandro Marín-Gutiérrez
In a context of transformation where South African students have started to confront issues of alienation and access to higher education institutions, the role of language is not a minor issue. This study explores the implicit language attitudes of a sample of 80 young L1 South African indigenous language speakers toward Standard South African English and black accented English in a university context
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Discovering the Fabric of Supportive Conversations: A Typology of Speaking Turns and Their Contingencies Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-08-31 Graham D. Bodie, Susanne M. Jones, Miriam Brinberg, Amy M. Joyer, Denise Haunani Solomon, Nilam Ram
This study examines messages that problem disclosers and supportive listeners enact during conversations about everyday stressors. We coded 402 dyadic interactions between strangers, friends, and romantic couples using Stiles’s (1992) verbal response modes (VRM) and Burleson’s (1982) verbal person centeredness (PC) typology to explore whether (a) listener and discloser utterances coalesce into types
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The Deception Spiral: Corporate Obfuscation Leads to Perceptions of Immorality and Cheating Behavior Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-08-18 David M. Markowitz, Maryam Kouchaki, Jeffrey T. Hancock, Francesca Gino
In four studies, we evaluated how corporate misconduct relates to language patterns, perceptions of immorality, and unethical behavior. First, we analyzed nearly 190 codes of conduct from S&P 500 manufacturing companies and observed that corporations with ethics infractions had more linguistically obfuscated codes than corporations without ethics infractions. Next, we tested perceptions of a company
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Word Use as an Unobtrusive Predictor of Early Departure From Organizations Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-07-28 Young Min Baek, Jennifer Ihm
Past studies have emphasized members’ personality as an important predictor of departure from organizations, but the measurement of this factor has mostly relied on self-judged personality. As alternatives to self-judged personality, our study examines how two unobtrusive measures—others-judged personality and computerized text analytic results through Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count 2015 (Pennebaker
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“Wait With Falling in Love”: Discursive Evaluation of Amicable Messages Conveyed by Opponents Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-07-27 Zohar Kampf, Dana Chudy, Roni Danziger, Mia Schreiber
Amicable messages delivered in a conflict may have a positive effect on recipients’ willingness to reconcile. Although studies have examined their effect, we still lack understanding on what grounds amicable messages are accepted or rejected. This study identifies the interpretative repertoires Israeli news commenters apply to make sense of amicable messages delivered unexpectedly by foreign opponent
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Book Review: Innovations and Challenges in Language Learning Motivation Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-07-03 Honggang Liu, Yu Zhang
Duck, S., & VanderVoort, L. (2002). Scarlet letters and whited sepulchers: The social marking of relationships as “inappropriate.” In R. Goodwin & D. Cramer (Eds.), Inappropriate relationships: The unconventional, the disapproved and the forbidden (pp. 3-24). Lawrence Erlbaum. Floyd, K. (2006). Communicating affection: Interpersonal behavior and social context. Cambridge University Press. Spitzberg
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Inferring Grandiose Narcissism From Text: LIWC Versus Machine Learning Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-07-03 Andrew D. Cutler, Stephen W. Carden, Hannah L. Dorough, Nicholas S. Holtzman
People have long used language to infer associates’ personality. In quantitative research, the relationship is often analyzed by looking at correlations between a psychological construct and the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC)—a program that tabulates word frequencies. We compare LIWC to a machine learning (ML) language model on the task of predicting grandiose narcissism (valid N = 471).We
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Reactions of Arab-Palestinians in Israel Toward an In-group Member: Mixing Hebrew or English With Arabic Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Yechiel Klar, Abed Al-Rahman Mar’i, Slieman Halabi, Ameer Basheer, Bashir Basheer
Code-mixing with a dominant language can appeal to members of linguistic minorities because it signals bilingual proficiency, modernity, and social mobility. However, it can also pose a threat to the minority’s group vitality and distinctiveness. In Study 1 (N = 208), Palestinian citizens of Israel (a linguistic and national minority) listened to a recorded message by a fellow group member, either
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How Language Contributes to Stereotype Formation: Combined Effects of Label Types and Negation Use in Behavior Descriptions Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-06-25 Christian Burgers, Camiel J. Beukeboom
This article focuses on the role of language in social-stereotype formation through interpersonal communication. We conducted a between-subjects experiment (N = 423), in which participants were exposed to differential remarks about (members of) an unknown social group. Remarks varied in two linguistic devices: (a) label type, by distinguishing between generic and specific labels and (b) behavior descriptions
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One Group’s Advantage or Another Group’s Disadvantage? How Comparative Framing Shapes Explanations of, and Reactions to, Workplace Gender Inequality Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-06-25 Susanne Bruckmüller, Maike Braun
Gender inequality is usually described as women’s disadvantage, only rarely as men’s advantage. Moreover, it is often illustrated by metaphors such as the glass ceiling—an invisible barrier to women’s career advancement—metaphors that often also focus on women’s disadvantage. Two studies (N = 228; N = 495) examined effects of these different ways of framing gender inequality. Participants read about
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Intergroup Threat as a Mediator of Ethnic Identification and Intergroup Orientations Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-06-22 Margareta Jelić, Ena Uzelac, Dinka Čorkalo Biruški
In Croatia, four minority groups practice their right to education in their respective mother tongues. Relations between the majority and minority groups in the four multiethnic communities have developed under different historical circumstances. Thus, in some regions the different language of the minority and the majority group can be perceived as a threat to identity and result in intergroup prejudice
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The Twofold Role of a Minority Language in Historical Trauma: The Case of Lemko Minority in Poland Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-06-19 Magdalena Skrodzka, Karolina Hansen, Justyna Olko, Michał Bilewicz
Tragic collective events bring about long-term consequences for affected groups. These effects not only affect the immediate victims of trauma, but can also influence subsequent generations. In the present research, we examined the effects of minority language use on historical trauma. In a study of 237 Lemko participants, members of a severely victimized ethnic minority in Poland, we tested the effects
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Do People Remember What Is Prototypical? The Role of Accent–Religion Intersectionality for Individual and Category Memory Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-06-15 Tamara Rakić, Melanie C. Steffens, Atena Sazegar
Evidence suggests that accents can be typically more powerful in activating ethnicity categorization than appearance. Concurrently, some social categories, such as ethnicity, can be linked with other categories, such as religion. We investigate how people categorize those who belong to a (mis)matching pair of categories? In the present study, we investigated Germans’ categorization of women either
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Where Are You From? An Investigation Into the Intersectionality of Accent Strength and Nationality Status on Perceptions of Nonnative Speakers in Britain Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-06-15 Megan E. Birney, Anna Rabinovich, Thomas A. Morton
We explore how interpersonal and intergroup perceptions are affected by a nonnative speaker’s accent strength and the status of their home country. When nationality information was absent (Study 1), natives who heard a strong (vs. weak) accent rated the speaker as warmer but immigrants as a group as more threatening. This result was replicated when the speaker’s nationality was familiar (Study 2) but
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Epilogue: The Language Opportunities for the XXI Century Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-06-15 Margaret J. Pitts
This epilogue to the Special Issue on Language Challenges in the 21st Century offers commentary on the current state of social scientific inquiry in the field of language and social psychology. Inspired by the seven articles that make up this Special Issue, I became curious about what we would find if we sought language opportunities instead of language challenges in the 21st century. I recommend future
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Prologue: Language Challenges in the 21st Century Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-06-12 Megan E. Birney, Janin Roessel, Karolina Hansen, Tamara Rakić
As immigration and mobility increases, so do interactions between people from different linguistic backgrounds. Yet while linguistic diversity offers many benefits, it also comes with a number of challenges. In seven empirical articles and one commentary, this Special Issue addresses some of the most significant language challenges facing researchers in the 21st century: the power language has to form
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Mood Effects on Humor Production: Positive Mood Improves the Verbal Ability to Be Funny Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-05-21 Joseph P. Forgas, Diana Matovic
Can mood influence people’s ability to produce humorous verbal messages? Based on recent theories linking affect to social cognition and information-processing strategies, this experiment predicted and found that positive mood increased people’s ability to generate more creative, humorous, and elaborate verbal contents. Participants viewed positive, neutral, or negative videos, then produced verbal
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Communicating Advice: Introduction to the Special Issue Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-05-12 Erina L. MacGeorge
Advice is a ubiquitous and consequential form of social support and social influence in virtually every social and cultural context, and has therefore garnered considerable scholarly attention over the past two decades, including the development of several theories specific to explaining advice evaluation and outcomes. The studies selected for this special issue extend existing theory through critique
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Health Providers’ Advising on Symptom Management for Upper Respiratory Tract Infections: Does Elaboration of Reasoning Influence Outcomes Relevant to Antibiotic Stewardship? Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-05-12 Kasey A. Foley, Erina L. MacGeorge, David L. Brinker, Yuwei Li, Yanmengqian Zhou
Antibiotic-resistant infections, fueled by unwarranted antibiotic prescribing, are an increasing threat to public health. Reducing overprescribing and promoting antibiotic stewardship requires managing patient expectations for and understanding about the utility of antibiotics. One hotspot for overprescribing is upper respiratory tract infections, for which the best treatment is often non-antibiotic
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Advice Padded With Encouragement: A Preliminary Assessment of an Extended Integrated Model of Advice Giving in Supportive Interactions Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-05-12 Yining Zhou Malloch, Bo Feng, Bingqing Wang, Chelsea Kim
The integrated model of advice giving (IMA) proposes that advising in supportive interactions should be carried out in three sequential moves: emotional support—problem inquiry and analysis—advice (EPA). Prior research indicates the utility of this framework for effective advising in supportive interactions. The current project proposed and tested an extended integrated model of advice giving, adding
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Advisor Interaction Goals and Verbal Messages: Merging a Multiple Goals Approach and the Integrated Model of Advice Giving Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-05-12 Lisa M. Guntzviller, Manuel D. Pulido, Danni Liao, Chelsea P. Butkowski
Based on the integrated model of advice giving and theorizing about interaction goals, we examined how advisors’ goal intensity and complexity predicted perceptions of advisor harmfulness and helpfulness. We also examined predictors of goal intensity and complexity, such as advisors’ relational satisfaction with recipients, which generally increased goal intensity and complexity. Recipients and advisors
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“Watchful Waiting” Advice for Pediatric Ear Infections Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-05-12 Erina L. MacGeorge, Kasey A. Foley, Emily P. C. Firgens, Rachel R. Vanderbilt, Amber K. Worthington, Nicole M. Hackman
To reduce antibiotic use, clinical guidelines recommend treating many pediatric ear infections with watchful waiting (WW), which entails parents managing children’s symptoms while waiting to see if the infection will resolve without antibiotics. This study examines providers’ WW advice in recorded medical visits (n = 28), focusing on five communication elements specified by guidelines and consistent
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The Influence of Self-Disclosure in Online Support Seeking on Quality of Received Advice Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-03-20 V. Skye Wingate, Bo Feng, Chelsea Kim, Wenjing Pan, JooYoung Jang
Advice of varying quality can be provided to support seekers online. This study examined whether the type of self-disclosure (demographic vs. self-concept) included in a support-seeking post elicits varying levels of advice quality in support provision. Participants (N = 624) read and responded to an online support-seeking post. Their advice messages were assessed for quality as indexed by the use
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Linguistic Influences on the Outcomes of Imposed Advice Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-03-18 Lyn M. Van Swol, Jihyun Esther Paik, Andrew Prahl
This study examines how language used by advice recipients and whether the peer apologized before offering advice affected advice outcomes. Participants wrote about a problem and then shared the problem through online chat with a peer (who was actually an experimental confederate). Although the participant was expecting the peer to share a problem as well and stated they did not want advice, the peer
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Building Expertise: Effects of Experience Claims on Responses to Advice Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-03-18 Kellie St.Cyr Brisini, Denise Haunani Solomon
People place more value on advice from others whom they view as expert; however, the ways in which advisors might increase perceptions of their expertise through language choice remains unclear. This article examines a married partner’s ability to influence perceptions of their expertise, and consequent advice outcomes, by making explicit claims about past experience with a problem. Two experimental
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Book Review: Affectionate Communication in Close Relationships Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-03-13 Sean M. Horan
Gardner, R. C., & Lambert, W. E. (1959). Motivational variables in second language acquisition. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 13(4), 266-272. https://doi.org/10.1037/ h0083787 Seligman, M. E. P. (2011). Flourish: A visionary new understanding of happiness and wellbeing. Atria Books. Watson, D., Clark, L. A., & Tellegen, A. (1988). Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative
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Assessing Communication Behaviours of Hospital Pharmacists: How Well Do the Perspectives of Pharmacists, Patients, and an Independent Observer Align? Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-03-06 Bernadette A. M. Chevalier, Bernadette M. Watson, Michael A. Barras, William Neil Cottrell
Pharmacists need effective communication skills to provide high-quality patient care. To date, little has been published about hospital pharmacists’ communication behaviours, most is atheoretical, and has not studied patients and pharmacists as a dyad. We investigated how well pharmacists’ and patients’ perspectives of their shared conversation aligned, and how closely these perspectives matched that
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Playback: An Investigation of the Discursive Implications and the Pragmatic Functions of Repetition in Traditional Chinese Medical Consultations Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-02-26 Ying Jin, Bernadette Maria Watson
The current study examined a role-related difference in the use of playback (one form of repetition) in medical discourse. We adopted a language and social psychology approach and invoked communication accommodation theory (CAT) to explore this discourse. Thirty doctor/older adult dyads were recorded and transcribed verbatim. Findings suggested that the deployment of repetition is a strategy used by
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Perceptions of Racial Slurs Used by Black Individuals Toward White Individuals: Derogation or Affiliation? Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-02-11 Conor J. O’Dea, Donald A. Saucier
Research suggests that racial slurs may be “reclaimed” by the targeted group to convey affiliation rather than derogation. Although it is most common in intragroup uses (e.g., “nigga” by a Black individual toward another Black individual), intergroup examples of slur reappropriation (e.g., “nigga” by a Black individual toward a White individual) are also common. However, majority and minority group
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Communicating Imperatives Requires Psychological Closeness But Creates Psychological Distance Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-02-01 David M. Markowitz, Paul Slovic
This article evaluates the psychological correlates of imperative speech through pronouns. We demonstrate that people communicate with more collective immediacy (“we” words) when using imperatives than nonimperatives in an experiment (Study 1, N = 828) and field studies of American politicians (Study 2a: N = 123,678 speeches), and Joseph Stalin (Study 2b: N = 593 speeches). However, respondents experience
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The Effects of Jargon on Processing Fluency, Self-Perceptions, and Scientific Engagement Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2020-01-29 Hillary C. Shulman, Graham N. Dixon, Olivia M. Bullock, Daniel Colón Amill
In this experiment (N = 650), we integrate ideas from the literatures on metacognition and self-perception to explain why the use of jargon negatively affects engagement with science topics. We offer empirical evidence that the presence of jargon disrupts people’s ability to fluently process scientific information, even when definitions for the jargon terms are provided. We find that jargon use affects
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Automated Analysis of Narrative: NarrCat and the Identification of Infrahumanization Bias Within Text Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2019-12-21 Sarah Choi, James H. Liu, István Csertő, Orsolya Vincze, Éva Fülöp, Tibor Pólya
The Narrative Categorical Content Analysis toolkit (abbreviated as NarrCat) decomposes narratives into distinct, quantifiable psychological processes. In this study, NarrCat was applied to analyze New Zealand’s historical “Speeches from the Throne” from 1854 to 1913 (68 speeches). Specifically, NarrCat’s cognition, emotion, and intention modules were applied to analyze patterns of psychological perspective
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Grasping for Metaphors: Identity Ambiguity Contributes to the Preference for Metaphor Usage Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2019-12-13 Michael N. Bultmann, Nathan Wheeler, Tyler Jimenez, Jamie Arndt
Metaphors are frequently used linguistic devices that have the power to clarify ambiguous topics. In turn, a clear and stable self-concept is important to psychological functioning. The current article examines the potential role of self-concept clarity in understanding metaphor usage. Study 1 found that self-concept clarity negatively predicts metaphor usage. Study 2 found that experimentally lowering
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Sounding Strange(r): Origins, Consequences, and Boundary Conditions of Sociophonetic Discrimination Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2019-12-12 Magdalena Formanowicz, Caterina Suitner
Talking is an immediate and rich form of communication. Through vocal signals we provide information about ourselves and our social background. In six empirical articles, one review article, and a commentary, this special issue gathers an integrated collection of research covering the effects of vocal cues associated with minority membership, in particular, in relation to sexual orientation and migration
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Modern Notions of Accent-ism: Findings, Conceptualizations, and Implications for Interventions and Research on Nonnative Accents Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2019-11-25 Janin Roessel, Christiane Schoel, Dagmar Stahlberg
Nonnative-accented speakers face prevalent discrimination. The assumption that people freely express negative sentiments toward nonnative speakers has also guided common research methods. However, recent studies did not consistently find downgrading, so that prejudice against nonnative accents might even be questioned at first sight. The present theoretical article will bridge these contradictory findings
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Accent Beliefs Scale (ABS): Scale Development and Validation Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2019-11-15 Karolina Hansen
People’s accents in speech strongly influence how they are perceived by others. The current Accent Beliefs Scale was inspired by work on stigmatization, implicit theories of intelligence, and essentialism. The scale has two dimensions: accent diagnosticity and accent stability. The scale was developed, validated, and applied using a mixed methods approach with a QUAN–qual sequential design. Pretest
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The Social Costs of Sounding Gay: Voice-Based Impressions of Adoption Applicants Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2019-11-11 Fabio Fasoli, Anne Maass
In three studies (total N = 239) we examined the unexplored question of whether voice conveying sexual orientation elicits stigma and discrimination in the context of adoption. Studies 1 and 2 were conducted in Italy where same-sex adoption is illegal and controversial. Study 3 was conducted in the United Kingdom where same-sex adoption is legal and generally more accepted. The three studies show that
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One of Us: On the Role of Accent and Race in Real-Time In-Group Categorization Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2019-11-11 Maria Paola Paladino, Mara Mazzurega
In the present research, we investigated the combined role of accent (native vs. nonnative) and race (European native or White vs. nonnative or Black) in real-time in-group categorization among Italian participants. We found that targets presenting mixed cues (i.e., Black persons with a native accent and White persons with a nonnative accent) led to the simultaneous and parallel activation of in-group
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Gender (Conformity) Matters: Cross-Dimensional and Cross-Modal Associations in Sexual Orientation Perception Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2019-11-09 Sven Kachel, Melanie C. Steffens, Sabine Preuß, Adrian P. Simpson
Although sexual orientation (SO) is perceptually ambiguous, people are able to detect it with above-chance accuracy from faces and, sometimes, from voices. Despite a multitude of “gaydar” studies, it is unclear (1) whether vocal or facial signals carry more SO information, (2) whether raters refer to target’s SO instead of gender-role conformity when forming SO impressions, and (3) whether there are
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Agency and Accountability in (Un)Employment-Related Discourse in the Era of “Crisis” Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2019-11-08 Lia Figgou
This study explores the ways in which young people orient to and manage their agency in (un)employment-related discourse in “crisis ridden” Greece. It focuses on data elicited by semistructured interviews with 40 people, aged between 18 and 29 years. Interviews were analyzed by the principles of critical discursive social psychology. Analysis indicated that, in the context of accounting for job loss
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Voice Changes Meaning: The Role of Gay- Versus Straight-Sounding Voices in Sentence Interpretation Journal of Language and Social Psychology (IF 1.162) Pub Date : 2019-11-08 Fabio Fasoli, Anne Maass, Rachel Karniol, Raquel Antonio, Simone Sulpizio
Utterances reveal not only semantic information but also information about the speaker’s social category membership, including sexual orientation. In four studies (N = 345), we investigated how the meaning of what is being said changes as a function of the speaker’s voice. In Studies 1a/1b, gay- and straight-sounding voices uttered the same sentences. Listeners indicated the likelihood that the speaker
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