Improving communicative understanding: The benefits of global processing
(2012) Journal of Experimental Social Psychology — Vol. 48, n° 5, p. 1179-1182 (2012)
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- The current research investigated whether a global processing style, affording a focus on the broader context, promotes communicative understanding and, in turn, communicative success. Results confirmed that compared to priming local processing, priming global processing enhanced the deciphering of potentially sarcastic statements of which participants were the receivers (Experiment 1). Experiment 2 extended these findings to oral communication: Global processing increased the correct deciphering of meanings that speakers' attempted to convey by ambiguous sentences to listeners. Overall 'seeing the forest instead of the trees' allowed receivers to attend more perceptively to the larger communicative context, thereby facilitating successful communication. © 2012 Elsevier Inc..
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Woltin, K.-A., Corneille, O., & Yzerbyt, V. (2012). Improving communicative understanding: The benefits of global processing. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48(5), 1179-1182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2012.03.004 (Original work published 2012)