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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.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | judgment | memory | social psychology

Place, Publisher

Sage Periodical Press

ISBN

0261-927X

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

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.