“I am not guilty” vs “I am innocent”: Successful negation may depend on the schema used for its encoding☆

By Ruth Mayo, Y. Schul, E. Burnstein. 2004

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Subfields: Language and Linguistics, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Antonymy and negation (2006, background): “…been devoted to the psycholinguistic effects of negated concepts, there has been agreement on the role of the negator as an instruction to the addressee to suppress the negated concept – the suppression hypothesis (e.g. MacDonald and Just, 1989; Kaup, 2001; Kaup and Zwaan, 2003; Mayo et al., 2004).”
Thinking About the Opposite of What Is Said: Counterfactual Conditionals and Symbolic or Alternate Simulations of Negation (2018, background): “In some situations, it may be transformed into an affirmation; for example, “Tom is not guilty” is transformed into its affirmative counterpart, “Tom is innocent,” which activates information congruent with innocence, at least for negations that have well-defined opposites (Mayo et al., 2004).”
He did it! She did it! No, she did not! Multiple causal explanations and the continued influence of misinformation (2015, background): “…CIEs—in the plane crash example, if evidence of a mechanical fault is presented together with the retraction of the initially assumed terrorist attack, references to the attack are diminished (Ecker et al., 2010, 2011a; H. M. Johnson & Seifert, 1994; Seifert, 2002; also see Mayo et al., 2004).”
Does understanding negation entail affirmation?: An examination of negated metaphors (2006, background): “Prior research has shown that when negation affords an inference, people are less likely to recall negation as affirmation (Mayo et al., 2004; Hasson et al., 2005).”
Assessing Three Sources of Misresponse to Reversed Likert Items (2008, background): “Similarly, acquiescent respondents automatically accept items at comprehension, independent of item content or polarity; thus, their responses should not vary with negation type (e.g., Gilbert 1991; Grant, Malaviya, and Sternthal 2004; Mayo, Schul, and Burnstein 2004).”
Presidential Charismatic Leadership: Exploring the Rhetoric of Social Change (2008, background): “Fiol et al. (1999) operationalized this negating process through the leader'suseof “nots”andfoundthat “nots”weremostfrequentlyusedbycharismaticpresidentsduringphase2.However, given the controversial interpretation of “nots” (see Fiol et al., 1999; Grant, Malaviya, & Sternthal, 2004; Spangler & House”
No sign of quitting: incidental exposure to “no smoking” signs ironically boosts cigarette-approach tendencies in smokers (2013, unknown): “Similarly, Mayo et al. (2004) showed that negated bs_bs_banner Journal of Applied Social Psychology 2013, 43, pp. 2158–2162 descriptions of a person (e.g., " Tom is not tidy " ) facilitated incongruent judgments (e.g., " Tom folds his clothes neatly " ), as though the negation had not been present…”