Accent-based stereotyping, prejudice, and their predictors. (September 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sumantry, David; Choma, Becky L.
• Is Part Of: Personality and individual differences. Volume 179(2021)
• Publication Date: 2021-09
• Subjects: Accent -- Stereotypes -- Prejudice -- Political ideology -- Right-wing authoritarianism -- Social dominance orientation; Personality -- Periodicals; Individuality -- Periodicals; Individuality -- Periodicals; Personality Development -- Periodicals; Personnalité -- Périodiques; Individualité -- Périodiques; 155.205
• DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.110894
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0191-8869

Abstract

Abstract: Theories of stereotyping and prejudice have yet to be comprehensively applied to accents. U.S. adults ( n = 124) listened to clips from Indian, Latinx, Arabic, and Toronto-accented speakers. They then completed stereotype measures based on solidarity, status, dynamism (SSD), and the Stereotype Content Model (SCM), and evaluated the speakers. Stereotypes, but not evaluations, differed between accents. Results suggest that measures of warmth and competence may be sufficient to capture differences in accent-based stereotyping. Authoritarianism predicted accent-based prejudice against non-North American accents relative to Toronto accents (as in-group allies), whereas social dominance orientation predicted more negative evaluations overall. Neither ideological belief predicted stereotypes.