TY - JOUR U1 - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed) A1 - Hansen, Karolina A1 - Rakić, Tamara A1 - Steffens, Melanie C. T1 - Competent and Warm? How Mismatching Appearance and Accent Influence First Impressions JF - Experimental Psychology N2 - Most research on ethnicity has focused on visual cues. However, accents are strong social cues that can match or contradict visual cues. We examined understudied reactions to people whose one cue suggests one ethnicity, whereas the other cue contradicts it. In an experiment conducted in Germany, job candidates spoke with an accent either congruent or incongruent with their (German or Turkish) appearance. Based on ethnolinguistic identity theory, we predicted that accents would be strong cues for categorization and evaluation. Based on expectancy violations theory we expected that incongruent targets would be evaluated more extremely than congruent targets. Both predictions were confirmed: accents strongly influenced perceptions and Turkish-looking German-accented targets were perceived as most competent of all targets (and additionally most warm). The findings show that bringing together visual and auditory information yields a more complete picture of the processes underlying impression formation. KW - Akzent KW - Erwartung KW - Soziale Wahrnehmung KW - Ethnizität KW - nonnative speech KW - stereotypes KW - ethnolinguistic identity KW - expectancy violations KW - impression formation KW - person perception Y1 - 2017 UN - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-91459 SN - 2190-5142 SS - 2190-5142 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000348 DO - https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000348 N1 - This version of the article may not completely replicate the final authoritative version published in Experimental Psychology at https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000348. It is not the version of record and is therefore not suitable for citation. Please do not copy or cite without the permission of the author(s). VL - 64 IS - 1 SP - 27 EP - 36 PB - Hogrefe CY - Göttingen ER -