Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Titel der Quelle:
Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
Angaben zur Quelle:
8 (2005) 3 ; 245-257, Online-Ressource
DDC:
306.44
Abstract:
Abstract: We examined how rhetorical style affects evaluations of group advocates, and how these evaluations are moderated by group identification. University students were given a letter to the editor defending student welfare. The argument was either constructed using personal language (‘I believe’) or collective language (‘we believe’). Furthermore, the letter was either attributed to an official advocate (president of the student union) or an unofficial advocate (a rank-and-file member of the student body). Consistent with the social identity perspective, participants who showed strong identification as a university student thought that the group would feel better represented by official advocates using collective rather than personal language. Low identifiers, however, did not rate the rhetorical styles differently on representativeness. Furthermore, low identifiers (but not high identifiers) rated official advocates as more likable and more effective when they used personal rather than
Note:
Postprint
,
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
DOI:
10.1177/1368430205053941
URN:
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-227814
URL:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-227814
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430205053941
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