Search results for "Social category"
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Fuzzy gender categories: How emotional expression influences typicality *The authors would like to thank Fieke Harinck for her help in conducting Stu…
2001
Social categories are conceived of as broad classes in which some instances are better exemplars than others, and non-necessary features are assumed to modulate typicality. This research investigated how various emotional expressions impact on gender categorization. Two concurrent measures - response latencies and prototypicality judgments - were collected and compared in three experiments. The results showed that emotional expressions of any kind are highly relevant in modulating females' category membership, while they are of less relevance in making a male more or less prototypical. These findings provide new insights into the relation between gender and emotional expressions.
Contesting Category Salience: A study of the perceptions of the sides involved in the Persian Gulf War
2001
AbstractPrevious studies of political rhetoric in general, and the rhetoric surrounding the Gulf war in particular, have suggested that social categories are not defined by perceptual features of context, but rather rhetorically constructed and contested for the purposes of mass mobilisation. Thus western leaders portrayed the conflict as ‘Civilisation against Saddam Hussein’ in order to maximise the pro-war constituency, while leaders of the western anti-war movements portrayed it in terms of ‘Western leaders against ordinary (Iraqi) people’ in order to minimise the pro-war constituency. However these studies focus exclusively on leaders and fail to show whether ordinary people differ in t…
Predicting and Measuring Decision Rules for Social Recognition in a Neotropical Frog.
2022
AbstractMany animals use signals, such as vocalizations, to recognize familiar individuals. However, animals risk making recognition mistakes because the signal properties of different individuals often overlap due to within-individual variation in signal production. To understand the relationship between signal variation and decision rules for social recognition, we studied male golden rocket frogs, which recognize the calls of territory neighbors and respond less aggressively to a neighbor’s calls than to the calls of strangers. We quantified patterns of individual variation in acoustic properties of calls and predicted optimal discrimination thresholds using a signal detection theory mod…
Letters in Arabic sent from the Nasrid Court. A diplomatic analysis
2018
El trabajo aplica las técnicas de la ciencia Diplomática a la correspondencia enviada desde la corte nazarí de Granada a monarcas y señores de los reinos de Aragón y Castilla. Por razones de coherencia y espacio, se centra únicamente en las misivas redactadas en árabe. El objetivo es establecer sus caracteres extrínsecos (tamaño y color del papel, tipo de letra, características del sello, presencia o no deʽalāma) e intrínsecos (manera de dirigirse al destinatario, manera de presentarse, saludos, tipo de datación tópica y crónica), comprobar si con el paso del tiempo hubo evolución en las fórmulas y si se refleja en éstas la categoría social de remitente y destinatario. Las fuentes empleadas…