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When Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Preventing Discrimination of Nonstandard Speakers

  • Prejudice against a social group may lead to discrimination of members of this group. One very strong cue of group membership is a (non)standard accent in speech. Surprisingly, hardly any interventions against accent-based discrimination have been tested. In the current article, we introduce an intervention in which what participants experience themselves unobtrusively changes their evaluations of others. In the present experiment, participants in the experimental condition talked to a confederate in a foreign language before the experiment, whereas those in the control condition received no treatment. Replicating previous research, participants in the control condition discriminated against Turkish-accented job candidates. In contrast, those in the experimental condition evaluated Turkish- and standard-accented candidates as similarly competent. We discuss potential mediating and moderating factors of this effect.

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Author:Karolina HansenORCiDGND, Tamara RakićGND, Melanie C. SteffensGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-91013
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X13499761
ISSN:1552-6526
Parent Title (English):Journal of Language and Social Psychology
Publisher:Sage
Place of publication:Thousand Oaks, CA
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2014
Date of Publication (online):2019/08/01
Publicationstate:Postprint
Reviewstate:Peer-Review
Tag:discrimination; impression formation; intervention; nonstandard accent; own experience
GND Keyword:Akzent; Diskriminierung; Experimentelle Psychologie; Soziale Wahrnehmung
Volume:33
Issue:1
First Page:68
Last Page:77
DDC classes:100 Philosophie und Psychologie / 150 Psychologie
DDC classes:400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik
Open Access?:ja
Linguistics-Classification:Psycholinguistik / Kognitive Linguistik
Linguistics-Classification:Soziolinguistik
Licence (German):License LogoUrheberrechtlich geschützt