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- Title
Children's communication of the Linguistic Intergroup Bias and its impact upon cognitive inferences.
- Authors
Werkman, Wolanda M.; Wigboldus, Dani&eoml;l H. J.; Semin, G&uoml;n R.
- Abstract
The hypotheses that children use language strategically (e.g. as in the Linguistic Intergroup Bias) and with increasing strength with age were supported in an experiment with participants ranging in age from 8 to 19 years. In a second experiment, the impact of biased language use on participants' inferences was examined in a sample ranging in age from 5 to 11 years. It was shown for all age groups that participants' inferences were systematically influenced by the abstractness or concreteness of a message. The implications of these findings for the communication and transmission of stereotypes at an early age are discussed. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
COGNITIVE learning; COMMUNICATION; INTERGROUP relations; LINGUISTICS; CHILDREN; SCIENTIFIC experimentation
- Publication
European Journal of Social Psychology, 1999, Vol 29, Issue 1, p95
- ISSN
0046-2772
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/(SICI)1099-0992(199902)29:1<95::AID-EJSP898>3.0.CO;2-Z