Deer who are distant: response congruency to relative pronouns across human and nonhuman entities
Dillon, Denise, and Pang, Josephine (2020) Deer who are distant: response congruency to relative pronouns across human and nonhuman entities. Society and Animals, 28 (5-6). pp. 447-471.
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Abstract
The study explores the influence of relative pronouns who or that on attributions of humanness across four categories of entities (unnamed nonhuman animals, named animals, machines, and people). Eighty-three university students performed an attribution task where they saw a priming phrase containing one category item with either who or that (e.g., deer who are …) and then two trait attribute items (Uniquely Human UH/Human Nature HN word pairs; e.g., distant-nervous), from which they selected the trait attribute most meaningfully suited to the phrase. Data were analyzed with a repeated measures 2 (humanness: HN traits, UH traits) × 2 (pronoun: who, that) × 4 (category: unnamed animals, named animals, machines, people) ANOVA. Participants responded relatively faster to HN trait attributes than to UH traits, and responded faster to named animals than to all other entities. Faster responses also ensued for people-who pairings than people-that pairings, and vice versa for named animals.
| Item ID: | 51731 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 1063-1119 |
| Keywords: | attributions of humanness; relative pronouns; language and behaviour |
| Copyright Information: | © Denise Dillon, 2017. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC 4.0 license. |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Dec 2017 02:13 |
| FoR Codes: | 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5205 Social and personality psychology > 520505 Social psychology @ 50% 47 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 4799 Other language, communication and culture > 479999 Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified @ 50% |
| SEO Codes: | 95 CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING > 9502 Communication > 950201 Communication Across Languages and Culture @ 100% |
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