TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Bilewicz, Michał
A1  - Stefaniak, Anna
A1  - Witkowska, Marta
A1  - Hansen, Karolina
T1  - Language of Responsibility. The Influence of Linguistic Abstraction on Collective Moral Emotions
JF  - Psychology of Language and Communication
N2  - Two experiments investigated the effects of linguistic abstractness on the experience of collective moral emotions. In Experiment 1 participants were presented with two scenarios about ingroup misbehavior, phrased using descriptive action verbs, interpretative action verbs, adjectives or nouns. The results show that participants experienced slightly more negative moral emotions with higher levels of linguistic abstractness. In Experiment 2 we also tested for the influence of national identification on the relationship between linguistic abstractness and emotional reactions. Additionally, we expanded the number of scenarios. Experiment 2 replicated the earlier pattern, but found larger differences between conditions. The strength of national identification did not moderate the observed effects. The results of this research are discussed within the context of the linguistic category model and psychology of collective moral emotions.
KW  - Nationalbewusstsein
KW  - Moralität
KW  - Gruppenidentität
KW  - Sprachgebrauch
KW  - linguistic abstractness
KW  - Linguistic Category Model
KW  - collective emotions
KW  - national identification
Y1  - 2017
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-90098
SN  - 2083-8506
SS  - 2083-8506
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/plc-2017-0001
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1515/plc-2017-0001
VL  - 21
IS  - 1
SP  - 1
EP  - 15
PB  - de Gruyter
CY  - Berlin [u.a.]
ER  -