Does Linguistic Abstractness Influence Intergroup Bias? Experimental study in four European countries

KOUŘILOVÁ, Sylvie; Daniel GESCHKE; Eerika FINELL; Michal BILEWICZ a Annalisa CASINI. Does Linguistic Abstractness Influence Intergroup Bias? Experimental study in four European countries. In Xth European Congress of Psychology, Prague. 2007.

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Does Linguistic Abstractness Influence Intergroup Bias? Experimental study in four European countries

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

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Xth European Congress of Psychology, Prague, 2007

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Fakulta sociálních studií

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The 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 and colleagues have shown differences in the inductive potential of nouns versus adjectives. We attempted to link their findings with intergroup attitudes. In four European countries, we examined whether the use of nouns versus adjectives for nationality labels of target persons has effects on intergroup bias – specifically on in-group favoritism. The use of more abstract language for the description of a target person (a Czech, a painter) leads to stronger in-group favoritism than the use of a less abstract language (a Czech painter).