Abstract social categories facilitate access to socially skewed words.


Journal

PloS one
ISSN: 1932-6203
Titre abrégé: PLoS One
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101285081

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2019
Historique:
received: 08 11 2018
accepted: 24 12 2018
entrez: 5 2 2019
pubmed: 5 2 2019
medline: 30 10 2019
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Recent work has shown that listeners process words faster if said by a member of the group that typically uses the word. This paper further explores how the social distributions of words affect lexical access by exploring whether access is facilitated by invoking more abstract social categories. We conduct four experiments, all of which combine an Implicit Association Task with a Lexical Decision Task. Participants sorted real and nonsense words while at the same time sorting older and younger faces (exp. 1), male and female faces (exp. 2), stereotypically male and female objects (exp. 3), and framed and unframed objects, which were always stereotypically male or female (exp. 4). Across the experiments, lexical decision to socially skewed words is facilitated when the socially congruent category is sorted with the same hand. This suggests that the lexicon contains social detail from which individuals make social abstractions that can influence lexical access.

Identifiants

pubmed: 30716075
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0210793
pii: PONE-D-18-32250
pmc: PMC6361498
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

e0210793

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Auteurs

Jennifer Hay (J)

Department of Linguistics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain & Behaviour, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Abby Walker (A)

Department of English, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America.

Kauyumari Sanchez (K)

Department of Psychology, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, United States of America.

Kirsty Thompson (K)

Department of Linguistics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

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