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Sounding Black or White: priming identity and biracial speech

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, April 2015
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Title
Sounding Black or White: priming identity and biracial speech
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, April 2015
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00457
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Sarah E Gaither, Ariel M Cohen-Goldberg, Calvin L Gidney, Keith B Maddox, Calvin L Gidney, Calvin L Gidney

Abstract

Research has shown that priming one's racial identity can alter a biracial individuals' social behavior, but can such priming also influence their speech? Language is often used as a marker of one's social group membership and studies have shown that social context can affect the style of language that a person chooses to use, but this work has yet to be extended to the biracial population. Audio clips were extracted from a previous study involving biracial Black/White participants who had either their Black or White racial identity primed. Condition-blind coders rated Black-primed biracial participants as sounding significantly more Black and White-primed biracial participants as sounding significantly more White, both when listening to whole (Study 1a) and thin-sliced (Study 1b) clips. Further linguistic analyses (Studies 2a-c) were inconclusive regarding the features that differed between the two groups. Future directions regarding the need to investigate the intersections between social identity priming and language behavior with a biracial lens are discussed.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 65 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 29%
Student > Bachelor 8 12%
Student > Master 8 12%
Researcher 7 11%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 6%
Other 7 11%
Unknown 12 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 34 52%
Linguistics 7 11%
Social Sciences 7 11%
Neuroscience 2 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 2%
Other 1 2%
Unknown 13 20%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 October 2018.
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#2,378,508
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