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Publication details [#27821]
Doest, Laura ter, Gün R. Semin and Stephen J. Sherman. 1996. Linguistic context and social perception: Does stimulus abstraction moderate processing style? Journal of Language and Social Psychology 21 (3) : 195–229. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Sage Periodical Press
ISBN
0261-927X
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper examines the role of linguistic context in social memory and social judgment, by exploring perceivers' responses to concrete versus abstract person descriptions. Findings suggest that linguistic context plays a moderating role in inconsistency processing.