- Title
- Linguistic description moderates the evaluations of counterstereotypical people
- Creator
- Rubin, Mark; Paolini, Stefania; Crisp, Richard J.
- Relation
- Social Psychology Vol. 44, Issue 4, p. 289-298
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000114
- Publisher
- Hogrefe Verlag GmbH & Co. KG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- The present research investigated linguistic description as a moderator of biased evaluations of counterstereotypical individuals. Members of an online participant pool (N = 237) indicated their liking for stereotypical and counterstereotypical individuals who were described using adjectives or behaviors. There was a significant interaction between target typicality and linguistic description: People liked counterstereotypical individuals more than stereotypical individuals when target individuals were described using adjectives. In contrast, they showed no bias or a negative bias against counterstereotypical individuals who were described using behaviors. This interaction effect generalized across gender targets (men/women) and sexuality targets (gay/straight), and it was partially mediated by subjective processing fluency. Implications for the backlash effect and prejudice reduction are discussed.
- Subject
- stereotypical; counterstereotypical; processing fluency; backlash effect; category expectancy violation; shifting standards
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1036198
- Identifier
- uon:13219
- Identifier
- ISSN:1864-9335
- Language
- eng
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