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Publication details [#58685]

Sendén, Marie Gustafsson, Torun Lindholm and Sverker Sikström. 2014. Selection Bias in Choice of Words. Evaluations of “I” and “We” Differ Between Contexts, but “They” Are Always Worse. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 33 (1) : 49–67.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications

Annotation

In everyday life, people employ language to communicate appraising messages on social categories. This study shows that individuals choose a more positive context for self-inclusive and individual than for self-exclusive and collective pronouns. In an interpersonal condition though, evaluative distinctions between I and We decrease, whilst in an intergroup context the evaluative breach between self-inclusive and self-exclusive pronouns is enlarged.