How In-Group Bias Influences Source Memory for Words Learned From In-Group and Out-Group Speakers.

ABSTRACT: Individuals rapidly extract information about others' social identity, including whether or not they belong to their in-group. Group membership status has been shown to affect how attentively people encode information conveyed by those others. These findings are highly relevant for the field of psycholinguistics where there exists an open debate on how words are represented in the mental lexicon and how abstract or context-specific these representations are. Here, we used a novel word learning paradigm to test our proposal that the group membership status of speakers also affects how speaker-specific representations of novel words are. Participants learned new words from speakers who either attended their own university (in-group speakers) or did not (out-group speakers) and performed a ta

SUBMITTER: Iacozza S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6751324 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature