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Increasing Group Entitativity
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Abstract Previous research has shown the strength of the linguistic intergroup bias across different intergroup settings. However, there is no evidence of linguistic discrimination within minimal groups. This experiment aimed to shed light on the phenomenon of lin... view more
Previous research has shown the strength of the linguistic intergroup bias across different intergroup settings. However, there is no evidence of linguistic discrimination within minimal groups. This experiment aimed to shed light on the phenomenon of linguistic intergroup discrimination in a minimal group setting, and to investigate the impact of group entitativity on this bias. Four group entitativity conditions were created by altering the mere categorization condition toward less entitativity and toward more entitativity. Participants were asked to describe the choice allegedly made by another participant in allocating resources to ingroup and outgroup members. Results showed an overall linguistic bias, whereby ingroup behaviors were described more positively and abstractly than outgroup behaviors. Increasing group entitativity resulted in increasingly biased outgroup descriptions, which in the most entitative condition revealed a predominant use of negative abstract terms.... view less
Free Keywords
group entitativity; linguistic discrimination; minimal groups;
Document language
English
Publication Year
2007
Page/Pages
p. 280-296
Journal
Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 10 (2007) 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430207075156
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)