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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Linguistics
  • Social Psychology

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  • Agency, the capacity to pursue goals, is intrinsically linked to the self.
  • Linguistic research suggests verbs are the primary grammatical means of expressing agency.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the linguistic manifestation of the self-agency connection.
  • To determine if verbs are linguistically associated with the self more than nouns are.

Main Methods:

  • Two studies were conducted with 168 participants.
  • An Implicit Association Test (IAT) measured reaction times to self-related and other-related stimuli paired with verbs and nouns.

Main Results:

  • Participants responded faster when self-related stimuli and verb stimuli shared the same response key.
  • This indicates a stronger association between the self and verbs compared to the self and nouns.

Conclusions:

  • The findings reveal a significant link between the self, agency, and the use of verbs.
  • This connection offers new insights into how agency is linguistically expressed and how word choice influences socio-cognitive processes.