TY - JOUR A1 - Schauenburg, Gesche A1 - Conrad, Markus A1 - von Scheve, Christian A1 - Barber, Horacio A. A1 - Ambrasat, Jens A1 - Aryani, Arash A1 - Schröder, Tobias T1 - Making sense of social interaction : emotional coherence drives semantic integration as assessed by event-related potentials JF - Neuropsychologia N2 - We compared event-related potentials during sentence reading, using impression formation equations of a model of affective coherence, to investigate the role of affective content processing during meaning making. The model of Affect Control Theory (ACT; Heise, 1979, 2007) predicts and quantifies the degree to which social interactions deflect from prevailing social norms and values - based on the affective meanings of involved concepts. We tested whether this model can predict the amplitude of brain waves traditionally associated with semantic processing. To this end, we visually presented sentences describing basic subject-verb-object social interactions and measured event-related potentials for final words of sentences from three different conditions of affective deflection (low, medium, high) as computed by a variant of the ACT model (Schröder, 2011). Sentence stimuli were closely controlled across conditions for alternate semantic dimensions such as contextual constraints, cloze probabilities, co-occurrences of subject-object and verb-object relations. Personality characteristics (schizotypy, Big Five) were assessed to account for individual differences, assumed to influence emotion-language interactions in information processing. Affective deflection provoked increased negativity of ERP waves during the P2/N2 and N400 components. Our data suggest that affective incoherence is perceived as conflicting information interfering with early semantic processing and that increased respective processing demands – in particular in the case of medium violations of social norms - linger on until the N400 time window classically associated with the integration of concepts into embedding context. We conclude from these results that affective meanings influence basic stages of meaning making. KW - Affect Control Theory KW - Interaktion KW - Affektive Entwicklung Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.01.002 SN - 1873-3514 VL - 125 SP - 1 EP - 13 PB - Amsterdam CY - Elsevier ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ambrasat, Jens A1 - von Scheve, Christian A1 - Schauenburg, Gesche A1 - Conrad, Markus A1 - Schröder, Tobias T1 - Unpacking the Habitus BT - Meaning Making Across Lifestyles JF - Sociological Forum N2 - The concept of habitus refers to socially stratified patterns of perception, classification, and thinking that are supposed to bring about specific lifestyles. Until now, research on the links between stratification and lifestyles has accounted for the habitus mainly in conceptual and theoretical terms, and studies directly measuring habitus and its association with stratification and lifestyles are rare. The present study conceptualizes the habitus as an individual-level pattern of meaning making and suggests an operationalization that is commonly used in identity research. Using survey data of 3,438 respondents, the study investigates associations between different lifestyles and patterns of meaning making. Results show, first, that self-related meanings vary systematically across lifestyle categories and mirror respondents' stratification position. Second, the meanings of various social concepts also vary significantly across lifestyle categories and partly reflect descriptive lifestyle characteristics. In sum, the study presents a plausible operationalization of (parts of) the habitus and advances our understanding of its mediating position between stratification and lifestyles. KW - Habitus KW - Studie KW - Lebensstil KW - Soziale Schichtung Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12293 SN - 1573-7861 VL - 31 IS - 4 SP - 994 EP - 1017 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken ER -