. You could not be signed in, please check and try again. In this section, we will explore how environmental and physical factors, cognitive and personal factors, prejudices, and bad listening practices present barriers to effective listening. Both these forms of communication are important in ensuring that we are able to put across our message clearly. Some contexts for cross-group communication are explicitly asymmetrical with respect to status and power: teacher-student, mentor-mentee, supervisor-employee, doctor-patient, interviewer-interviewee. Indeed, individuals from collectivist cultureswho especially value ingroup harmonydefault to transmitting stereotype-congruent information unless an explicit communication goal indicates doing so is inappropriate (Yeung & Kashima, 2012). That caveat notwithstanding, in the context of prejudice, evaluative connotation and stereotypicality frequently are confounded (i.e., the stereotypic qualities of groups against whom one is prejudiced are usually negative qualities). Using Semin and Fiedlers (1988) Linguistic Category Model, there are four forms of linguistic characterization that range in their abstractness. Physical barriers to non-verbal communication. Obligatory smiles do not show this marker. Communicators also use secondary baby talk when speaking to individuals with developmental cognitive disabilities, but also may use this speech register when the receiver has a physical disability unrelated to cognitive functioning (e.g., an individual with cerebral palsy). And concern about appearing prejudiced can lead communicators to overcompensate with effusive praise or disingenuous smiles. At the same time, 24/7 news channels and asynchronous communication such as tweets and news feeds bombard people with messages throughout the day. Krauss & Fussell, 1991); group labels presumably develop in a similar fashion. As one easily imagines, these maxims can come into conflict: A communicator who is trying to be clear and organized may decide to omit confusing details (although doing so may compromise telling the whole truth). 2. When feedback-givers are concerned about accountability without fear of appearing prejudiced, they provide collaboratively worded suggestions that focus on features that significantly could improve performance. Stereotype-incongruent characteristics and behaviors, to contrast, muddy the picture and therefore often are left out of communications. Within the field of social psychology, the linguistic intergroup bias arguably is the most extensively studied topic in prejudiced communication. The top left corner. Small conversing groups of ordinary citizens who engage in ingroup talk may transmit stereotypes among themselves, and stereotypes also may be transmitted via mass communication vehicles such as major news outlets and the professional film industry. Cultural barriers can broadly be defined as obstacles created during the communication process due to a person's way of life or beliefs, including language (whether from two different countries or . People also direct prejudiced communication to outgroups: They talk down to others, give vacuous feedback and advice, and nonverbally leak disdain or anxiety. Dehumanization relegates members of other groups to the status of objects or animals and, by extension, describes the emotions that they should prompt and prescribes how they should be treated. 4. Humor attempts take various forms, including jokes, narratives, quips, tweets, visual puns, Internet memes, and cartoons. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication, Department of Psychology, Tulane University, Gender (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies). Treating individuals according to rigid stereotypic beliefs is detrimental to all aspects of the communication process and can lead to prejudice and discrimination. The communicator makes assumptions about the receivers knowledge, competence, and motivation; those assumptions guide the message construction, and may be revised as needed. In some settings, however, a communicator may be asserting that members of the tagged group successfully have permeated a group that previously did not include them. More abstract still, state verbs (e.g., loathes hard work) reference a specific object such as work, but also infer something about the actors internal states. As research begins to consider interactions in which historically lower status group members hold higher situational status (cf. Phone calls, text messages and other communication methods that rely on technology are often less effective than face-to-face communication. People also direct prejudiced communication to outgroups: They talk down to others, give vacuous feedback and advice, and nonverbally leak disdain or anxiety. Finally, these examples illustrate that individuals on the receiving end are influenced by the prejudiced and stereotype messages to which they are exposed. Some evidence suggests that people fail to apply such conversational conventions to outgroups: The addition of mitigating explanations for negative outcomes does not help outgroup members (Ruscher, 2001). A high level of appreciation for ones own culture can be healthy; a shared sense of community pride, for example, connects people in a society. This topic has been studied most extensively with respect to gender-biased language. These tarnishing effects can generalize to people who are associated with the targeted individual, such as the White client of a derogated Black attorney (Greenberg, Kirkland, & Pyszczynski, 1988). Among these strategies are linguistic masking devices that camouflage the negative behaviors of groups who hold higher status or power in society. However, we must recognize these attributesin ourselves and others before we can take steps to challenge and change their existence. Conceivably, communicators enter such interactions with a general schema of how to talk to receivers who they believe have communication challenges, and overgeneralize their strategies without adjusting for specific needs. Although not as detrimental as ethnocentrism or stereotypes, anxiety can prevent us from making intercultural connections that will enrich our lives. Crossing boundaries: Cross-cultural communication. Ruscher and colleagues (Ruscher, Wallace, Walker, & Bell, 2010) proposed that cross-group feedback can be viewed in a two-dimension space created by how much feedback-givers are concerned about appearing prejudiced and how much accountability feedback-givers feel for providing feedback that is potentially helpful. Generalization reflects a preference for abstract rather than concrete descriptions. Generally speaking, negative stereotypic congruent behaviors are characterized with abstract terms whereas positive stereotypic incongruent behaviors are characterized with concrete terms. One prominent example is called face-ism, which is the preference for close-up photos of faces of people from groups viewed as intelligent, powerful, and rational; conversely, low face-ism reflects preference for photographing more of the body, and is prevalent for groups who are viewed as more emotional or less powerful. Similar effects have been observed with a derogatory label directed toward a gay man (Goodman, Schell, Alexander, & Eidelman, 2008). Group labels often focus on apparent physical attributes (e.g., skin tone, shape of specific facial features, clothing or head covering), cultural practices (e.g., ethnic foods, music preferences, religious practices), or names (e.g., abbreviations of common ethnic names; for a review, see Allen, 1990). An attorney describing a defendant to a jury, an admissions committee arguing against an applicant, and marketing teams trying to sell products with 30-second television advertisements all need to communicate clear, internally consistent, and concise messages. (Pew Research Center, Ap. That noted, face-ismand presumably other uses of stereotypic imagesis influenced by the degree of bias in the source. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out a single article for personal use (for details see Privacy Policy and Legal Notice). As such, the observation that people smile more at ingroups and frown more at outgroups is not a terribly insightful truism. For example, imagine an outgroup that is stereotyped as a group of unmotivated individuals who shamelessly rely on public assistance programs. 14. Effective listening, criticism, problem-solving, and being open to change can all help you break down communication barriers. In fact, preference for disparaging humor is especially strong among individuals who adhere to hierarchy-endorsing myths that dismiss such humor as harmless (Hodson, Rush, & MacInnis, 2010). Emotions and feelings : Emotional Disturbances of the sender or receiver can distort[change] the communication . Social scientists have studied these patterns most extensively in the arenas of speech accommodation, performance feedback, and nonverbal communication. However, communicators also adapt their speech to foreigners in ways that may or may not be helpful for comprehension. Such information is implicitly shared, noncontroversial, and easily understood, so conversation is not shaken up by its presentation. But ethnocentrism can lead to disdain or dislike for other cultures and could cause misunderstanding and conflict. Conversely, ingroup negative behaviors are described concretely (e.g., the man is sitting on his porch, as above) but positive behaviors are described in a more abstract fashion. . Slightly more abstract, interpretive action verbs (e.g., loafing) reference a specific instance of behavior but give some interpretation. More broadly, use of masculine terms (e.g., mankind) and pronouns (e.g., he) as a generic reference to all people fails to bring female actors to mind (for a discussion see Ruscher, 2001). Listeners may presume that particular occupations or activities are performed by members of particular groups, unless communicators provide some cue to the contrary. Social science research has not yet kept pace with how ordinary citizens with mass communication access are transforming the transmission of prejudiced beliefs and stereotypes. They include displaying smiles (and not displaying frowns), as well as low interpersonal distance, leaning forward toward the other person, gaze, open postures, and nodding. Another interesting feature of metaphors that distinguish them from mere labels is that metaphors are not confined to verbal communication. Step 1: Describe the behavior or situation without evaluating or judging it. Possessing a good sense of humor is a highly valued social quality, and people feel validated when their attempts at humor evoke laughter or social media validations (e.g., likes, retweets; cf. When our prejudices and stereotypes are unchallenged, they can lead toaction in the forms of discrimination and even violence. Reliance on shared stereotypicand even archetypicalimages essentially meets the communication goals discussed earlier: A story must be coherent, relevant, and transmitted in a finite amount of time. Work on communication maxims (e.g., Grice, 1975) and grounding (e.g., Clark & Brennan, 1991) indicate that communicators should attempt brevity when possible, and that communicating group members develop terms for shared understanding. In The Nature of Prejudice, Gordon Allport wrote of nouns that cut slices. He argued that human beings categorize who and what they encounter and advance one feature to a primary status that outweighs and organizes other features. We also acknowledge previous National Science Foundation support under grant numbers 1246120, 1525057, and 1413739. According to a Pew Research Report,"32% of Asian adults say they have feared someone might threaten or physically attack themwith the majority ofAsian adults (81%) saying violence against them is increasing. Not surprisingly, then, first-person plurals are associated with group cohesiveness such as people in satisfied marriages (Sillars, Shellen, McIntosh, & Pomegranate, 1997) as well as people who hold a more collectivisticas opposed to individualisticcultural orientation (Na & Choi, 2009). To dismantle ethnocentrism, we must recognize that our views of the world, what we consider right and wrong, normal or weird, are largely influenced by our cultural standpoint and that our cultural standpoint is not everyone's cultural standpoint. Prejudice can have very serious effects, for it can lead to discrimination and hate crimes. This button displays the currently selected search type. Thus, prejudiced communication can include the betrayal of attributional biases that credit members of the ingroup, but blame members of the outgroup. Marked nouns such as lady engineer or Black dentist signal that the pairing is non-normative: It implies, for example, that Black people usually are not dentists and that most dentists have an ethnicity other than Black (Pratto, Korchmaros, & Hegarty, 2007). More implicit attitudes and beliefs may be leaked through variations in sentence structure and subtle word choices. Derogatory group labels exemplify lay peoples notions of prejudiced language. Subsequently presented informationparticularly when explicitly or implicitly following a disjunctionis presumed to be included because it is especially relevant. Outgroups who are members of historically disadvantaged groups, in particular, are targets of controlling or patronizing speech, biased feedback, and nonverbal behavior that leaks bias. Television, radio, or Internet news may be local, national, or international, and may be biased by the sociopolitical leanings of the owner, advertisers, or reporters. Similarly, transmitting stereotype-congruent information helps develop closeness among newly acquainted individuals (Ruscher, Cralley, & OFarrell, 2005). . When the conversation topic focuses on an outgroup, the features that are clear and easily organized typically are represented by stereotype-congruent characteristics and behaviors. They arise as a result of a lack of drive or a refusal to adapt. In the IAT, participants are asked to classify stimuli that they view on a computer screen into one of two categories by pressing one of two computer keys, one with their left hand and one with their right hand. Thus, at least in English, use of the masculine signals to women that they do not belong (Stout & Dasgupta, 2016). By contrast, smaller groups whose few labels are negative (i.e., a noncomplex negative view of the group) may be especially prone to social exclusion (Leader, Mullen, & Rice, 2009). Andersen, P. A., Nonverbal Communication: Forms and Functions (Mountain View, CA: Mayfield, 1999), 57-58. But not all smiles and frowns are created equally. Derogatory labels, linguistic markers of intergroup bias, linguistic and visual metaphors, and non-inclusive language constitute an imposing toolbox for communicating prejudice beliefs. In contrast, illegal immigrants or military invaders historically have been characterized as vermin or parasites who are devoid or higher-level thoughts or affect, but whose behaviors are construed as dangerous (e.g., they swarm into cities, infect urban areas). Future research needs to be attentive to how historically advantaged group members communicate from a position of low power, as well as to unique features in how historically disadvantaged group members communicate from a position of high power. This person could be referenced as The man is sitting on his porch or The lazy guy on the porch. The first characterization is concrete, in that it does not make inferences about the mans disposition that extend beyond the time and place of the event. Learning how to listen, listening more than you speak, and asking clarifying questions all contribute to a better understanding of what is being communicated. Define and give examples of ethnocentrism. Considered here are attempts at humor, traditional news media, and entertaining films. Overaccommodation can take the form of secondary baby talk, which includes the use of simplified or cute words as substitutes for the normal lexicon (e.g., tummy instead of stomach; Caporael, 1981). The level of prejudice varies depending on the student's home country (Spencer-Rodgers & McGovern, 2002). All three examples illustrate how stereotypic information may be used to ease comprehension: Stereotypic information helps people get the joke or understand the message in a limited amount of time. Thus, exposure to stereotypic images does affect receivers, irrespective of whether the mass communicators consciously intended to perpetuate a stereotype. . Treating individuals according to rigid stereotypic beliefs is detrimental to all aspects of the communication process and can lead to prejudice and discrimination. The student is associated with the winning team (i.e., we won), but not associated with the same team when it loses (i.e., they lost). They may be positive, such as all Asian students are good at math,but are most often negative, such as all overweight people are lazy. "How You See Me"series on YouTube features "real" people discussing their cultural identifies. Differences in nonverbal immediacy also is portrayed on television programs; exposure to biased immediacy patterns can influence subsequent judgments of White and Black television characters (Weisbuch, Pauker, & Ambady, 2009). When prejudice leads to incorrect conclusions about other people, it can break down intercultural communication and lead to feelings of hostility and resentment. While private evaluations of outgroup members may be negative, communicated feedback may be more positively toned. In Samovar, L.A., &Porter,R.E. Although you know differently, many people mistakenly assume that simply being human makes everyone alike. This chapter addresses both theoretical and empirical gaps in the literature of stereotypic beliefs and prejudiced attitudes as noticed in everyday communication. People may express their attitudes and beliefs through casual conversation, electronic media, or mass communication outletsand evidence suggests that those messages impact receivers attitudes and beliefs. and the result is rather excessive amounts of exposure to stereotypic images for people in modern society. . There are many barriers that prevent us from competently perceiving others. However, when Whites feel social support from fellow feedback-givers, the positivity bias may be mitigated. This type of prejudice is a barrier to effective listening, because when we prejudge a person based on his or her identity or ideas, we usually stop listening in an active and/or ethical way. One person in the dyad has greater expertise, higher ascribed status, and/or a greater capacity to provide rewards versus punishments. This is hard to accomplish for two reasons. The parasite metaphor also is prevalent in Nazi film propaganda and in Hitlers Mein Kampf (Musolff, 2007). Discussions aboutstereotypes, prejudice, racism, and discrimination are unsettling to some. If there are 15 women in a room, consider how efficient it is to simply reference the one woman as shellac. Indeed, this efficiency even shows up in literature. Not being able to see the non-verbal cues, gestures, posture and general body language can make communication less effective. Alternatively, communicators might underaccommodate if they overestimate the listeners competence or if communicators infer that the listener is too incompetent or unmotivated to accept the message. (eds). In intergroup settings, such assumptions often are based on the stereotypes associated with the listeners apparent group membership. In peer interactions, for example, Richeson and Shelton have argued that Black and White participants may have different goals (e.g., to be respected versus to appear non-prejudiced); these different goals can prompt unique communication patterns from minority and majority group members. But other motivations that insidiously favor the transmission of biased beliefs come into play. But, of course, all things are not equal when intergroup biases may be operating. The barriers of communication can be discussed as follows: Language barriers: Language barriers occur when individuals speaking different languages communicate with each other. Google Scholar. For example, the metaphors can be transmitted quite effectively through visual arts such as propaganda posters and film. As discussed earlier, desire to advantage ones ingroup and, at times, to disparage and harm an outgroup underlie a good deal of prejudiced communication. Speech addressed to non-native speakers also can be overaccommodating, to the extent that it includes features that communicators might believe facilitate comprehension. Third-person pronouns, by contrast, are associated with distancing and negative feelings (e.g., Olekalns, Brett, & Donohue, 2010). A "large" and one of the most horrific examples of ethnocentrism in history can be seen is in the Nazis elevation of the Aryan race in World War IIand the corresponding killing of Jews, Gypsies, gays and lesbians, and other non-Aryan groups. Failures to provide the critical differentiated feedback, warnings, or advice are, in a sense, sins of omission. As the term implies, impression management goals involve efforts to create a particular favorable impression with an audience and, as such, different impression goals may favor the transmission of particular types of information. The variation among labels applied to a group may be related to the groups size, and can serve as one indicator of perceived group homogeneity. Butte College, 10 Sept. 2020, https://socialsci.libretexts.org/@go/page/58206. Prejudiced communication affects both the people it targets as well as observers in the wider social environment. For example, female members of British Parliament may be photographed in stereotypically feminine contexts (e.g., sitting on a comfortable sofa sipping tea; Ross & Sreberny-Mohammadi, 1997). It is not unusual to experience some level of discomfort in communicating with individuals from other cultures or co-cultures. Although little empirical research has examined the communication addressed to historically disadvantaged outgroups who hold high status roles, these negative evaluations hint that some bias might leak along verbal and/or nonverbal channels. Organizational barriers: Bias: Preconceptions or prejudice can lead to stereotyping or false assumptions. Casual observation of team sporting events illustrates the range of behaviors that reflect intergroup bias: Individuals don the colors of their teams and chant their teams praises, take umbrage at a referees call of egregious penalties against the home team, or pick fights with rival fans. Prejudiceis a negative attitude and feeling toward an individual based solely on ones membership in a particular social group, such as gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, social class, religion, sexual orientation, profession, and many more (Allport, 1954; Brown, 2010). Prejudice can be a huge problem for successful communication across cultural barriers. In addition to the linguistic intergroup bias, communicators rely on myriad linguistic strategies that betray and maintain intergroup biases. Neither is right or wrong, simply different. People who are especially motivated to present themselves as non-prejudiced, for example, might avoid communicating stereotype-congruent information and instead might favor stereotype-incongruent information. One of the most pervasive stereotypes is that physically attractive individuals are socially skilled, intelligent, and moral (Dion & Dion, 1987). In the absence of nonverbal or paralinguistic (e.g., intonation) cues, the first characterization is quite concrete also because it places no evaluative judgment on the man or the behavior. Intercultural communication anxiety is partially due to communication obstacles such as a student's language ability, differences in . Analyze barriers to effective interculturalcommunication. Thus, just because a message may use subtle linguistic features or is not fully intentional, bias still may impact observers just as more explicitly biased communications do. Using care to choose unambiguous, neutral language and . Language Conveys Bias Prejudice Oscar Wilde said, "Listening is a very dangerous thing. When White feedback-givers are only concerned about appearing prejudiced in the face of a Black individuals poor performance, the positivity bias emerges: Feedback is positive in tone but vacuous and unlikely to improve future performance. It can be intentional, hateful, and explicit: derogatory labels, dehumanizing metaphors, group-disparaging humor, dismissive and curt feedback. (https://youtu.be/Fls_W4PMJgA?list=PLfjTXaT9NowjmBcbR7gJVFECprsobMZiX), Figure \(\PageIndex{1}\): How You See Me. Chung, L. (2019). Although one might argue that such visual depictions sometimes reflect reality (i.e., that there is a grain of truth to stereotypes), there is evidence that at least some media outlets differentially select images that support social stereotypes. Racialdiscriminationisdiscriminationagainst an individual based solely on membership in aspecificracial group. Negativity toward outgroup members also might be apparent in facial micro-expressions signals related to frowning: when people are experiencing negative feelings, the brow region furrows . The contexts discussedhumor, news, entertaining filmcomprise some notable examples of how prejudiced communication is infused into daily life. In 2017, 35.5% of people with disabilities, ages 18 to 64 years, were employed, while 76.5% of people without disabilities were employed, about double that of people with disabilities. Hall, E. T. (1976). Given that secondary baby talk also is addressed to pets, romantic partners, and houseplants, it presumes both the need for care as well as worthiness of receiving care. Presumably, a photographer or artist has at least some control over how much of the body appears in an image. Curtailing biased communication begins with identifying it for what it is, and it ends when we remove such talk from our mindset. Explain when this happened and how it made you feel. 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