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SUBMITTER: Sloman SJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7877629 | biostudies-literature | 2021
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sloman Sabina J SJ Oppenheimer Daniel M DM DeDeo Simon S
PloS one 20210211 2
Previous work has demonstrated that certain speech patterns vary systematically between sociodemographic groups, so that in some cases the way a person speaks is a valid cue to group membership. Our work addresses whether or not participants use these linguistic cues when assessing a speaker's likely political identity. We use a database of speeches by U.S. Congressional representatives to isolate words that are statistically diagnostic of a speaker's party identity. In a series of four studies, ...[more]