Pietraszkiewicz, Agnieszka; Formanowicz, Magdalena; Gustafsson Sendén, Marie; Boyd, Ryan L.; Sikström, Sverker; Sczesny, Sabine (2019). The Big Two Dictionaries: Capturing Agency and Communion in Natural Language. European journal of social psychology, 49(5), pp. 871-887. Wiley-Blackwell 10.1002/ejsp.2561
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Four studies developed and validated two dictionaries to capture agenticand communal expressions in natural language. Their development fol-lowed theLinguistic Inquiry and Word Count(LIWC) approach (Study 1) andwe tested their validity with frequency-based analyses and semantic simi-larity measures. The newly developedAgencyandCommuniondictionarieswere aligned with LIWC categories related to agency and communion(Study 2), and corresponded with subjective ratings (Study 3), confirmingtheir convergent validity. Very low or absent correspondence between pro-posed dictionaries and unrelated LIWC categories demonstrated their dis-criminant validity (Study 2). Finally, we applied both dictionaries tolanguage used in advertisements. In correspondence to gender stereotypes,male-dominated jobs were advertised with more agentic than communalwords, and female-dominated jobs with more communal than agenticwords (Study 4). Both dictionaries represent reliable tools for quantifyingagentic and communal content in natural language, and will improve andfacilitate future research on agency and communion.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Social Neuroscience and Social Psychology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Pietraszkiewicz, Agnieszka, Formanowicz, Magdalena Maria, Sczesny, Sabine |
Subjects: |
100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology |
ISSN: |
0046-2772 |
Publisher: |
Wiley-Blackwell |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Agnieszka Pietraszkiewicz |
Date Deposited: |
07 Aug 2019 15:07 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:29 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1002/ejsp.2561 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.132110 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/132110 |
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