Dear All,
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Language Comprehension
Lab<https://lcl.ceu.edu/> invites you to the following talk:
Hugh Rabagliati<https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/hugh-rabagliati> (The University of
Edinburgh)
Biased language and the double-edged sword of efficient communication
Natural language contains and communicates a variety of social biases, a fact that
increasingly impacts human activity. Biases in language are typically assumed to reflect
biases and prejudices in how we think about social groups, but here I’ll discuss evidence
for an additional psychological cause, in which linguistic biases arise as a consequence
of the automatised mechanisms that we use to communicate efficiently. Psycholinguistic and
developmental experiences document that, when describing events, speakers show a “like me”
bias to highlight the perspectives of their own social groups, a fact that holds across
demographic categories, linguistic backgrounds, and age. Psycholinguistic manipulations
pinpoint that the bias is not caused by attitudes or social goals, but instead by greater
efficiency in retrieving words that refer to in-group members. These data provide a new
cognitive explanation for why people produce biased language, and highlight how detailed
cognitive theories can also have fundamental social implications.
Date: Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Time: 4 pm to 5:30 pm CET
Venue: QS D-001 Tiered* (Vienna)
Topic: Colloquium: Hugh Rabagliati
Time: Feb 21, 2024 04:00 PM Budapest
Zoom:
https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/93056812576?pwd=eFBNQUt3b2lxdnFQYU9RRmpoVlpRQT09
Meeting ID: 930 5681 2576
Passcode: 052633
Chair: Eva Wittenberg
*Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must
RSVP<mailto:socialmind@ceu.edu> to get access to the lecture hall.
Please note that we might make a video recording of the lecture, store the record for an
unlimited period of time under CEU’s Panopto account, and share the link with CEU
students, staff and faculty.
Best regards,
Andi and Fanni
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