群体间情境中的动机性语言使用：认知闭合需求对语言群体间偏见的影响

Motivated language use in intergroup contexts: need-for-closure effects on the linguistic intergroup bias.

作者信息

Webster D M, Kruglanski A W, Pattison D A

机构信息

Department of Psychology, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina 29732, USA.

出版信息

J Pers Soc Psychol. 1997 May;72(5):1122-31. doi: 10.1037//0022-3514.72.5.1122.

DOI:10.1037//0022-3514.72.5.1122

PMID:9150587

Abstract

Two experiments examined the impact of the motivation for cognitive closure on the abstractness of linguistic communications in intergroup contexts. Participants described positive and negative behaviors attributed to either an in-group or an out-group member. Individuals high (vs. low) in need for closure exhibited greater linguistic abstraction when describing positive behaviors of in-group members and negative behaviors of out-group members. These differences disappeared for descriptions of negative behaviors of out-group members. The discussion relates these results to the interface of motivation, language, and social cognition.

摘要

两项实验考察了认知闭合需求对群体间情境中语言交流抽象性的影响。参与者描述了内群体或外群体成员的积极和消极行为。在描述内群体成员的积极行为和外群体成员的消极行为时，高（相对于低）认知闭合需求的个体表现出更高的语言抽象性。对于外群体成员消极行为的描述，这些差异消失了。讨论将这些结果与动机、语言和社会认知的界面联系起来。