Simchon Almog, Hadar Britt, Gilead Michael
School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol, 12A Priory Road, Bristol, BS8 1TU, UK.
Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, POB 653, Beer Sheva, 84105, Israel.
Commun Psychol. 2023 Sep 25;1(1):23. doi: 10.1038/s44271-023-00020-1.
Previous psycholinguistic findings showed that linguistic framing - such as the use of passive voice - influences the level of agency attributed to other people. To investigate whether passive voice use relates to people's personal sense of agency, we conducted three studies in which we analyzed existing experimental and observational data. In Study 1 (N = 835) we show that sense of personal agency, operationalized between participants as recalling instances of having more or less power over others, affects the use of agentive language. In Study 2 (N = 2.7 M) we show that increased personal agency (operationalized as one's social media followership) is associated with more agentive language. In Study 3 and its two replications (N = 43,140) we demonstrate using Reddit data that the language of individuals who post on the r/depression subreddit is less agentive. Together, these findings advance our understanding of the nuanced relationship between personal and linguistic agency.
以往的心理语言学研究结果表明，语言框架——比如被动语态的使用——会影响人们对他人行为主体程度的认知。为了探究被动语态的使用是否与人们的个人行为主体感有关，我们进行了三项研究，在这些研究中我们分析了现有的实验数据和观察数据。在研究1（N = 835）中，我们发现，将参与者之间的个人行为主体感操作为回忆对他人拥有或多或少权力的事例时，它会影响施事性语言的使用。在研究2（N = 270万）中，我们发现个人行为主体感增强（操作为一个人的社交媒体关注者数量）与更多的施事性语言相关。在研究3及其两次重复实验（N = 43140）中，我们利用红迪网的数据证明，在r/抑郁症子版块发帖的个人语言的施事性较弱。这些研究结果共同推进了我们对个人行为主体感与语言行为主体感之间细微关系的理解。
