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Isabell Hubert Lyall1, Juhani Järvikivi1
1Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Frontiers in Psychology
|October 28, 2021
Summary
Political ideology and disgust sensitivity influence how people process spoken language. Higher disgust sensitivity correlated with greater pupil dilation to semantic and socio-cultural violations, with political views showing differential effects.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Science
- Psycholinguistics
- Neuroscience
Background:
- Individual moral views and political ideology impact cognitive processing.
- Disgust sensitivity is linked to the Behavioral Immune System and socio-political attitudes.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the influence of political ideology and disgust sensitivity on online spoken language comprehension.
- To examine how these factors affect the processing of different types of linguistic violations.
Main Methods:
- Pupillometry was used to track pupil size in 60 native English speakers while they listened to spoken utterances.
- Utterances included grammatical errors, semantic anomalies, and socio-cultural violations (e.g., gender stereotype incongruence).
Main Results:
- Individuals with higher disgust sensitivity exhibited greater pupil dilation in response to semantic anomalies and socio-cultural violations.
- Political ideology modulated the processing of violations: conservatives showed greater response to socio-cultural violations, while progressives responded more to semantic anomalies later in the record.
Conclusions:
- Disgust sensitivity and political ideology play distinct roles in spoken language comprehension.
- Pupillometry reveals nuanced, ideology-dependent processing of linguistic and socio-cultural incongruities.
Keywords:
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