Normative Force of generic-you

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Ariana Orvell, University of Michigan. College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Ethan Kross, University of Michigan. College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Susan Gelman, University of Michigan. College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

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Project Citation: 

Orvell, Ariana, Kross, Ethan, and Gelman, Susan. Normative Force of generic-you . Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-08-28. https://doi.org/10.3886/E109001V5

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary This project examines whether subtle shifts in language can affect people's endorsement of unfamiliar norms. Across five experiments (main text: N = 800) we test whether people judge behaviors described with generic-you (i.e., "You" that refers to people in general, e.g., "You carry an umbrella in the rain") as more normatively correct than behaviors described with "I" or third-person singular pronouns (i.e., "he" or "she"). Supplementary experiments 1-2 (N = 249) examine other linguistic cues that can also signal whether a given action is general.



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