The return of dispositionalism: On the linguistic consequences of dispositional suppression
(2004) Journal of Experimental Social Psychology — Vol. 40, n° 2, p. 264-272 (2004)
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- Yzerbyt, Corneille, Dumont, and Hahn (2001) showed that the correction of dispositional inferences does not only involve a close examination of situational constraints but also the suppression of those dispositional inferences. Building on the literature of mental control (Wegner, 1994; Wenzlaff & Wegner, 2000) and the Linguistic Category Model (Semin & Fiedler, 1988), we reasoned that participants induced to correct their dispositional attribution by being exposed to a forced speaker would subsequently use more abstract (i.e., dispositional) language to describe social behaviors than participants first confronted with a free speaker. We thus argue that dispositional suppression may result in a procedural rebound. As expected, participants selected more disposition-laden descriptors for pictorially presented behaviors after the suppression of dispositional thoughts (Experiment 1) or after having seen a forced rather than a free speaker (Experiment 2). These findings are discussed in the context of current theoretical accounts of the correspondence bias and suppressional rebound. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Geeraert, N., Yzerbyt, V., Corneille, O., & Wigboldus, D. (2004). The return of dispositionalism: On the linguistic consequences of dispositional suppression. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40(2), 264-272. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-1031(03)00097-0 (Original work published 2004)