In a 🚨 new paper 🚨: doi.org/10.1037/xlm0..., @pennypexman.bsky.social, @rjbinney.bsky.social, Emiko Muraki and I provide empirical evidence that social experience makes unique contributions to conceptual knowledge 🧵 - ThreadSky

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veronicadiveica.bsky.social • 343 days ago

In a 🚨 new paper 🚨: https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001328,
@pennypexman.bsky.social,
@rjbinney.bsky.social, Emiko Muraki and I provide empirical evidence that social experience makes unique contributions to conceptual knowledge 🧵

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jamiereillycog.bsky.social•343 days ago

NICE!

veronicadiveica.bsky.social•343 days ago

Concepts are thought to be represented via a combination of properties derived from sensory👁️, motor,✋ affective💗, introspective💭 and linguistic🗣️ experiences [2/7]

veronicadiveica.bsky.social•343 days ago

Recent theories propose that social information 👥 also makes important contributions to conceptual representation, and particularly to abstract concepts, 🛑 but behavioural evidence in favour of these claims is lacking [3/7]

veronicadiveica.bsky.social•343 days ago

Here, we show that ✨social words✨, like TEACHER, LOYAL, and NATION, benefit from more efficient processing across 1️⃣ lexical, 2️⃣ semantic, 3️⃣ syntactic and 4️⃣ memory tasks, even when controlling for established lexical and semantic dimensions [4/7]

veronicadiveica.bsky.social•343 days ago

This suggests that social information enriches conceptual representations, by, for example, providing them with additional features or thematic associations which facilitate their processing ➕📈 [5/7]

veronicadiveica.bsky.social•343 days ago

However, the socialness effect was not ubiquitous, and it was not always greater for more abstract words, highlighting its susceptibility to task/context demands and the dynamic nature of conceptual processing 🌊🔁 [6/7]

veronicadiveica.bsky.social•343 days ago

The pre-registrations, materials, data and scripts are publicly available on the Open Science Framework at https://osf.io/pmyut/ 🔓 [7/7]

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