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Outside the Laboratory: The Linguistic Intergroup Bias in a Natural Multiple-Comparison Setting

Year: 2009

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: This chapter reviews the literature on the Linguistic Intergroup Bias and reports an empirical contribution in which the linguistic discrimination phenomenon is analyzed in a real life intergroup setting by adopting a multiple comparison framework. Specifically, adolescents—members of sports, religious, political and spontaneous peer-groups—freely described the ingroup and a variety of meaningful outgroups. The relationship between linguistic discrimination and perceived ingroup and outgroup entitativity was also studied. Besides highlighting a strong ingroup favouritism, the results showed that descriptions of the outgroups were not all alike: Political and religious groups were more discriminated against than informal and sports groups. Furthmore, more entitative outgroups were described in a less biased fashion. The implications of these results for the generality and pervasiveness of linguistic intergroup discrimination in real life settings are discussed.

Source: Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna)

Authors: Monica Rubini, Anna Rita Graziani, Silvia Moscatelli

Language: English

Topic: Social and Intergroup Psychology

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2742900028

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Cites: 56

Cited by: 3

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