Hesitation in Communication: Does Minority Status Delay Responses?

• Main Authors: YEUNG, Victoria Wai-Lan, LAU, Ivy Yee-Man, CHIU, Chi-Yue
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• 主題: comprehension; inhibition process; minority-slowness effect; utterance directness; Social Psychology
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1518

Past studies indicated that people in a minority (vs. majority) position are slower to express their public/political opinion, and the larger the difference between the size of the two positions, the slower the response. Bassili termed this the minority-slowness effect (MSE). In the current study, t...