Communicators spontaneously make stereotype-driven adjustments, spending more time on communicatively relevant behavior when they believe their partner is a child¶

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q3 i1 Participants spent more time in the square containing the hidden object when they believed they were communicating with a child partner (Cohen's d = 0.24). → Koch 2024

Evidence¶

Koch 2024¶

Koch, S. B. J., Tyborowska, A., Niermann, H. C. M., Cillessen, A. H. N., Roelofs, K., Bašnáková, J., Toni, I., & Stolk, A. (2024). Integrating stereotypes and factual evidence in interpersonal communication. npj Science of Learning 9, 52. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-024-00262-6

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Experiment with 95 seventeen-year-olds using a nonverbal communication game where the presumed child and adult partners were actually the same role-blind confederate. The adjustment was "specific to communicatively relevant portions of the game board," with Cohen’s d = 0.24.

"Across all trials, participants spent more time in the square containing the object when they believed they were communicating with the child partner (Fig. 1b, M difference =3 2m s , t(94) =2 . 3 1 ,p =0 . 0 2 3 , C o h e n’s d = 0.24)."

Discussion¶

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