Language abstraction, Intergroup Bias and National Essentialism

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Language abstraction, Intergroup Bias and National Essentialism

KOURILOVA, Sylvie; Daniel GESCHKE; Eerika FINELL; Michal BILEWICZ; Annalisa CASINI et al.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Language abstraction, Intergroup Bias and National Essentialism

Název česky

Jazykova abstrakce, meziskupinove zkresleni a narodnostni esencialismus

Autoři

KOURILOVA, Sylvie; Daniel GESCHKE; Eerika FINELL; Michal BILEWICZ a Annalisa CASINI

Vydání

ESCON Transfer of Knowledge Conference, 2007

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

50100 5.1 Psychology and cognitive sciences

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

Klíčová slova anglicky

language abstraction, linguistic category model, intergroup bias, national essentialism

Změněno: 4. 1. 2008 15:23, prof. Mgr. Sylvie Graf, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

“Language Abstraction, Intergroup Bias and National Essentialism“ is a part of an international project initiated at the EAESP Summer School 2006 in Padova supervised by Anne Maass and Guen R. Semin. Our experimental study builds on the Linguistic Category Model (LCM) by Semin & Fiedler (1988, 1991) and its recent developments suggested by Carnaghi, Maass, Gresta, Bianchi, Arcuri, & Cadinu (submitted). In their research, Carnaghi et al. have shown differences in the inductive potential of nouns versus adjectives. We attempted to link their findings with intergroup attitudes and national essentialism. In four European countries, we examined whether the use of nouns versus adjectives for nationality labels of target persons has effects on intergroup bias. The use of more abstract language for the description of a target person (e.g. a Czech) should lead to stronger intergroup bias than the use of less abstract language (e.g. Czech). Based on Carnaghi and colleagues’ ideas we supposed that the link between more abstract language and stronger intergroup bias is mediated via the process of ascribing more essentialist characteristics to the target person. In the context of our research, national essentialism is defined as a belief system that is based on different components of national identity. Along with Habermas (2000), we distinguish three components of national identity: ethnic, cultural and civic. Denoting nationality with a noun (e.g. a German) should trigger a higher rate of perceived essentialism whereas using an adjective for a nationality label (e.g. German) should lead to a lower level of perceived essentialism.

Citovat

KOURILOVA, Sylvie; Daniel GESCHKE; Eerika FINELL; Michal BILEWICZ a Annalisa CASINI. Language abstraction, Intergroup Bias and National Essentialism. In ESCON Transfer of Knowledge Conference. 2007.

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KOURILOVA, Sylvie; Daniel GESCHKE; Eerika FINELL; Michal BILEWICZ a Annalisa CASINI. Language abstraction, Intergroup Bias and National Essentialism. In \textit{ESCON Transfer of Knowledge Conference}. 2007.

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