How do we perceive accents? The association between essentialist perceptions and accents
Aims: Accents are argued to signify category membership particularly in terms of ethnicity and nationality. Drawing from the theoretical framework of psychological essentialism, we investigated whether accents also trigger perceptions of group homogeneity: that is, whether people are characterised a...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015-09-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/conf.fpsyg.2015.66.00014/full |