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 This e-mail address is managed by the coordinators of the CEU Social Mind Center. https://socialmind.ceu.edu/ [cid:2294e31e-c5da-4650-a5bd-24382418cc43] Central European University Quellenstrasse 51 | 1100 Vienna, Austria ______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-subscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-unsubscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu