Abstract social categories facilitate access to socially skewed words

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dc.contributor.authorHay, Jenniferen
dc.contributor.authorWalker, Abbyen
dc.contributor.authorSanchez, Kauyumarien
dc.contributor.authorThompson, Kirstyen
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-30T14:34:27Zen
dc.date.available2019-05-30T14:34:27Zen
dc.date.issued2019-02-04en
dc.description.abstractRecent work has shown that listeners process words faster if said by a member of the group that typically uses the word. This paper further explores how the social distributions of words affect lexical access by exploring whether access is facilitated by invoking more abstract social categories. We conduct four experiments, all of which combine an Implicit Association Task with a Lexical Decision Task. Participants sorted real and nonsense words while at the same time sorting older and younger faces (exp. 1), male and female faces (exp. 2), stereo-typically male and female objects (exp. 3), and framed and unframed objects, which were always stereotypically male or female (exp. 4). Across the experiments, lexical decision to socially skewed words is facilitated when the socially congruent category is sorted with the same hand. This suggests that the lexicon contains social detail from which individuals make social abstractions that can influence lexical access.en
dc.description.notesA Rutherford Discovery Fellowship, (httns//royalsociety.org/nz/what-we-do/funds-and-opportunities/rutherford-discovery-fellowships/), grant number RDF-UOC1001, contributed to salary for the 1st, 3rd and 4th author, to participant payment, and travel money for the 2nd author. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.en
dc.description.sponsorshipRutherford Discovery Fellowship [RDF-UOC1001]en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210793en
dc.identifier.eissn1932-6203en
dc.identifier.issue2en
dc.identifier.othere0210793en
dc.identifier.pmid30716075en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/89640en
dc.identifier.volume14en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherPLOSen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.titleAbstract social categories facilitate access to socially skewed wordsen
dc.title.serialPLOS ONEen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
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