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Language use in intergroup contexts: the linguistic intergroup bias.
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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 and the important role that abstract versus concrete communication plays in the perpetuation of stereotypes.
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Socially Situated Cognition: Cognition in its Social Context
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The linguistic category model, its bases, applications and range
A model of interpersonal terms (verbs and adjectives) is reviewed in terms of the research on: (a) the systematic cognitive inferences these terms mediate, and (b) the implications of this model for…
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How do we communicate stereotypes? Linguistic bases and inferential consequences.
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Findings provide direct evidence for the hypothesis that recipients are sensitive to variations in linguistic abstraction in spontaneous language use because of stereotypes by analyzing judgments that recipients made on the basis of linguistically biased information generated by transmitters.
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Lie experts' beliefs about nonverbal indicators of deception
Beliefs about behavioral clues to deception were investigated in 212 people, consisting of prisoners, police detectives, patrol police officers, prison guards, customs officers, and college students.…
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Linguistic signatures of regulatory focus: how abstraction fits promotion more than prevention.
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It is hypothesized that eager promotion strategies used to attain desired end states entail using more abstract language than used with vigilant prevention strategies, and this is shown to hold for experimentally induced relationship goals and communication goals.
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The Thermometer of Social Relations
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These studies corroborate recent findings in the field of grounded cognition revealing that concrete experiences ground abstract concepts with which they are coexperienced and show a systemic interdependence among language, perception, and social proximity.
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Embodiment as a unifying perspective for psychology
Adaptive action is the function of cognition. It is constrained by the properties of evolved brains and bodies. An embodied perspective on social psychology examines how biological constrains give…
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Language That Puts You in Touch With Your Bodily Feelings
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It is predicted and found that verbal stimuli that refer to emotional expressions elicit the same facial muscle activity (facial electromyography) as visual stimuli do, evidence that language referring to facial muscular activity is not amodal, as traditionally assumed, but is instead bodily grounded.
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Temperature perceptions as a ground for social proximity
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