TY - JOUR
T1 - The negation bias in stereotype maintenance: A replication in five languages
AU - Beukeboom, Camiel J.
AU - Burgers, Christian
AU - Szabó, Zsolt P.
AU - Cvejic, Slavica
AU - Lönnqvist, Jan Erik M.
AU - Welbers, Kasper
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Research on linguistic biases shows that stereotypic expectancies are implicitly reflected in language and thereby subtly communicated to message recipients. Research on the Negation Bias shows that the use of negations (e.g., not stupid vs. smart) is more pronounced in descriptions of stereotype-inconsistent compared with stereotype-consistent behaviors. This article reports a replication study of the original research conducted in Dutch, using newly developed materials, and in five different languages: English, Dutch, Hungarian, Finnish, and Serbian. The results validate the existence of the Negation Bias in all five languages. This suggests that negation use serves a similar stereotype-maintaining function across language families.
AB - Research on linguistic biases shows that stereotypic expectancies are implicitly reflected in language and thereby subtly communicated to message recipients. Research on the Negation Bias shows that the use of negations (e.g., not stupid vs. smart) is more pronounced in descriptions of stereotype-inconsistent compared with stereotype-consistent behaviors. This article reports a replication study of the original research conducted in Dutch, using newly developed materials, and in five different languages: English, Dutch, Hungarian, Finnish, and Serbian. The results validate the existence of the Negation Bias in all five languages. This suggests that negation use serves a similar stereotype-maintaining function across language families.
KW - intergroup communication
KW - language
KW - linguistic bias
KW - negation
KW - social category
KW - stereotypes
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U2 - 10.1177/0261927X19869759
DO - 10.1177/0261927X19869759
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85072083938
SN - 0261-927X
VL - 39
SP - 219
EP - 236
JO - Journal of Language and Social Psychology
JF - Journal of Language and Social Psychology
IS - 2
ER -