Ransom Tailer G, Dale Rick, Kreuz Roger J, Tollefsen Deborah
Department of Philosophy, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, 38152, USA.
Department of Communication, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
J Psycholinguist Res. 2019 Oct;48(5):961-985. doi: 10.1007/s10936-019-09642-1.
Perceptions of entitativity are thought to be influenced by salient features such as the physical proximity and physical similarity of group members (Campbell in Behav Sci 3:14-25, 1958). But social interactions among group members involve a number of low-level alignment (Pickering and Garrod in Behav Brain Sci 27:212-225, 2004) and synchronization (Marsh et al. in Top Cogn Sci 1:320-339, 2009) processes. Conversational partners, for instance, become aligned in syntax, semantics, emotion, and bodily posture. In this paper, we explore whether alignment correlates with observers' judgments of entitativity, and, moreover, which specific forms of alignment have the strongest effects on these judgments. Results revealed that only emotional alignment had on effect on judgments of entitativity. We discuss how future work may further assess the role of various dimensions in shaping the perception of group status in linguistic interaction.
人们认为，对实体性的认知会受到一些显著特征的影响，比如群体成员之间的身体距离和身体相似性（坎贝尔，《行为科学》第3卷，第14 - 25页，1958年）。但是群体成员之间的社会互动涉及许多低层次的协调（皮克林和加罗德，《行为与脑科学》第27卷，第212 - 225页，2004年）和同步过程（马什等人，《认知科学前沿》第1卷，第320 - 339页，2009年）。例如，对话伙伴在句法、语义、情感和身体姿势上会变得协调一致。在本文中，我们探讨协调是否与观察者对实体性的判断相关，此外，哪种具体形式的协调对这些判断有最强的影响。结果表明，只有情感协调对实体性判断有影响。我们讨论了未来的研究如何进一步评估各个维度在语言互动中塑造群体地位认知方面的作用。
