The Impact of Linguistically Biased Messages on Involved Receivers

ion level influences a receiver who is also the actor of the behavior being described, has not been addressed. This question is an important one because it provides a first step in answering how stereotypes are communicated and maintained by investigating the effects of LIB upon receivers whose own behavior is being described. Stereotype maintenance and transmission was the question that drove the research on the LIB, but the LIB and related research has been primarily concerned with how a message is strategically composed, the psychological processes responsible in the production of such strategic word choices, and stereotype transmission and maintenance in terms of the impact of such messages upon uninvolved third parties. However, an experimental examination of transmission and maintenance through