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Publication details [#55128]

Schröder, Tobias. 2011. A Model of Language-Based Impression Formation and Attribution Among Germans. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 30 (1) : 82–102.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

affect | attribution theory | coherence | event | representational structure

Language as a subject

German

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study on the German language demonstrates that language-based impression formation and attribution processes can be molded as resulting from a wish to maximize affective consistency in linguistic representations of social events.