The Grammar of Persuasion: a meta-analytic review disconfirming the role of nouns as linguistic cues of subsequent behavior

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Witkowska, Marta
Dołżycka, Joanna
Suitner, Caterina
Formanowicz, Magdalena
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2024
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Journal of Language and Social Psychology
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4
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43
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428–449
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0261-927X
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0261927X241234845
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2024-03-04
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Recent discoveries suggest that nouns, as a word class, exhibit a greater capacity to model real-life behavior. In the studies by Bryan et al. (2011), participants prompted with a noun label rather than a semantically corresponding verb (be a voter vs. vote) were more likely to vote. However, many attempts to replicate the original results have shown unsuccessful (e.g., Gerber et al., 2020). To shed light on the effectiveness of subtle linguistic manipulations, we conducted a meta-analysis of 28 effect sizes (N = 13,376), being an exact or conceptual replications of Bryan et al. (2011). Although the average effect was significant (g = 0.12), the concurrent diagnostics indicated a low trust in the replicability or stability of the effect. Based on that, we cannot conclude that the greater effectiveness of nouns as cues has been reliably demonstrated. We discuss theoretical prospects involving the verb-action link as well as the self-verification motives.
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nouns
linguistic cues
behavior
identity
replication
meta-analysis
meta-science
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