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TY - JOUR
T1 - Foreign-Looking Native-Accented People
T2 - More Competent When First Seen Rather Than Heard?
AU - Hansen, Karolina
AU - Rakić, Tamara
AU - Steffens, Melanie C.
N1 - The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Social Psychological and Personality Science,9(8), 2018, © SAGE Publications Ltd, 2017 by SAGE Publications Ltd at the Social Psychological and Personality Science page: http://journals.sagepub.com/home/SPP on SAGE Journals Online: http://journals.sagepub.com/
PY - 2018/11
Y1 - 2018/11
N2 - Psychological research has neglected people whose accent does not match their appearance. Most research on person perception has focused on appearance, overlooking accents that are equally important social cues. If accents were studied, it was often done in isolation (i.e., detached from appearance). We examine how varying accent and appearance information about people affects evaluations. We show that evaluations of expectancy- violating people shift in the direction of the added information. When a job candidate looked foreign, but later spoke with a native accent, his evaluations rose and he was evaluated best of all candidates (Experiment 1a). However, the sequence in which information was presented mattered: when heard first and then seen, his evaluations dropped (Experiment 1b). Findings demonstrate the importance of studying the combination and sequence of different types of information in impression formation. They also allow predicting reactions to ethnically mixed people, who are increasingly present in modern societies.
AB - Psychological research has neglected people whose accent does not match their appearance. Most research on person perception has focused on appearance, overlooking accents that are equally important social cues. If accents were studied, it was often done in isolation (i.e., detached from appearance). We examine how varying accent and appearance information about people affects evaluations. We show that evaluations of expectancy- violating people shift in the direction of the added information. When a job candidate looked foreign, but later spoke with a native accent, his evaluations rose and he was evaluated best of all candidates (Experiment 1a). However, the sequence in which information was presented mattered: when heard first and then seen, his evaluations dropped (Experiment 1b). Findings demonstrate the importance of studying the combination and sequence of different types of information in impression formation. They also allow predicting reactions to ethnically mixed people, who are increasingly present in modern societies.
KW - non-native speakers
KW - face
KW - voice
KW - expectancy violations
KW - stereotypes
U2 - 10.1177/1948550617732389
DO - 10.1177/1948550617732389
M3 - Journal article
VL - 9
SP - 1001
EP - 1009
JO - Social Psychological and Personality Science
JF - Social Psychological and Personality Science
SN - 1948-5506
IS - 8
ER -