Accents, group identity, and trust behaviors: Evidence from Singapore

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العنوان: Accents, group identity, and trust behaviors: Evidence from Singapore
المؤلفون: Mongoljin Batsaikhan, Tai-Sen He, Yupeng Li
المساهمون: School of Social Sciences
المصدر: China Economic Review. 70:101702
بيانات النشر: Elsevier BV, 2021.
سنة النشر: 2021
مصطلحات موضوعية: Economics and Econometrics, media_common.quotation_subject, General [Social sciences], Vocal pitch, Accent, Trustworthiness, Dictator game, Collective identity, Perception, Discrimination, Stress (linguistics), Strategy method, Psychology, Social psychology, Speech rate, Finance, media_common
الوصف: We study discrimination on the basis of national origin in Singapore by exploring how the group identity discernible in a speaker's accent affects trust. In the trust game, Singaporean Chinese (SGC) senders were asked to listen to audio clips in which responders with either an SGC or a Mainland Chinese (MLC) accent read a two-sentence script before the senders decided how much money to send. We also used the strategy method to elicit the senders' beliefs about the trustworthiness of responders with an MLC accent versus those with an SGC accent. Contrary to our expectations and the common perception in Singapore, we found that Singaporean senders tended to place more trust in responders with an MLC accent than in responders with an SGC accent. We explain this difference on the basis of the Singaporean senders' beliefs about trustworthiness: they believed that people with an MLC accent would return more money to senders than would the in-group Singaporean counterparts. To bolster our findings, we confirmed in a separate experiment that the difference in response to the accents was not due to the speech rate or vocal pitch. Ministry of Education (MOE) Accepted version He acknowledges financial support from the Ministry of Education, Singapore (MOE Academic Research Fund Tier 1 RG57/14 and RG141/19).
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تدمد: 1043-951X
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2021.101702
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2021.101702
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قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE
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تدمد:1043951X
DOI:10.1016/j.chieco.2021.101702