TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Hansen, Karolina
A1  - Steffens, Melanie C.
A1  - Rakić, Tamara
A1  - Wiese, Holger
T1  - When appearance does not match accent: neural correlates of ethnicity-related expectancy violations
JF  - Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
N2  - Most research on ethnicity in neuroscience and social psychology has focused on visual cues. However, accents are central social markers of ethnicity and strongly influence evaluations of others. Here, we examine how varying auditory (vocal accent) and visual (facial appearance) information about others affects neural correlates of ethnicity-related expectancy violations. Participants listened to standard German and Turkish-accented speakers and were subsequently presented with faces whose ethnic appearance was either congruent or incongruent to these voices. We expected that incongruent targets (e.g. German accent/Turkish face) would be paralleled by a more negative N2 event-related brain potential (ERP) component. Results confirmed this, suggesting that incongruence was related to more effortful processing of both Turkish and German target faces. These targets were also subjectively judged as surprising. Additionally, varying lateralization of ERP responses for Turkish and German faces suggests that the underlying neural generators differ, potentially reflecting different emotional reactions to these targets. Behavioral responses showed an effect of violated expectations: German-accented Turkish-looking targets were evaluated as most competent of all targets. We suggest that bringing together neural and behavioral measures of expectancy violations, and using both visual and auditory information, yields a more complete picture of the processes underlying impression formation.
KW  - accent
KW  - face
KW  - event-related brain potentials
KW  - ethnicity
KW  - expectancy violations
KW  - Akzent
KW  - Soziale Wahrnehmung
KW  - Erwartung
KW  - Ethnizität
Y1  - 2017
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-90146
UR  - https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/12/3/507/2738794
SN  - 1749-5024
SS  - 1749-5024
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsw148
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsw148
VL  - 12
IS  - 3
SP  - 507
EP  - 515
PB  - Oxford University Press
CY  - Oxford
ER  -