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Children's communication of the Linguistic Intergroup Bias and its impact upon cognitive inferences
Author(s) -
Werkman Wolanda M.,
Wigboldus Daniël H. J.,
Semin Gün R.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
european journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1099-0992
pISSN - 0046-2772
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-0992(199902)29:1<95::aid-ejsp898>3.0.co;2-z
Subject(s) - concreteness , psychology , cognition , developmental psychology , social psychology , cognitive psychology , neuroscience
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 influenced by the abstractness or concreteness of a message. The implications of these findings for the communication and transmission of stereotypes at an early age are discussed. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.