Children's communication of the Linguistic Intergroup Bias and its impact upon cognitive inferences
✍ Scribed by Wolanda M. Werkman; Daniël H. J. Wigboldus; Gün R. Semin
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 119 KB
- Volume
- 29
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0046-2772
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✦ Synopsis
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 in¯uenced by the abstractness or concreteness of a message. The implications of these ®ndings for the communication and transmission of stereotypes at an early age are discussed.