The language of blame: Exploring the effects of non-native accents on post-accident blame attributions

Acta Psychologica, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 244, P. 104189 - 104189

Published: Feb. 15, 2024

This peer commentary investigates how individuals assign blame to non-native supervisors after an accident where employee suffers a workplace in multilingual organization. Extending research presented the focal article by Obenauer and Kalsher's (2023), authors propose that with accents are likely be blamed they tried prevent due stereotypes increased cognitive effort processing accented speech. The discuss scenarios where, even when effectively conduct verbal safety briefing warning employees about possible dangers, not excepted from blame. Additionally, suggest biases against may extend native speakers strong regional or foreign sounding accents. Moving forward, this encourages more nuanced theorizing around differentiating between various Latin/Hispanic

Language: Английский

Editorial: Advancing I-O psychology from multiple perspectives

Acta Psychologica, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 247, P. 104302 - 104302

Published: May 14, 2024

Language: Английский