Language, Thought, and Culture: Toward a Mergence of Diverging Problem Fields

Ertel, Suitbert

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“…Indeed, it turned out that the participants who declared high certainty of their standpoint before engaging in a dialogue had a significantly lower level of integrative attitude than participants who were less certain of theirs. This result, supported by the already cited views presented by Rokeach (1960) and the continuators of his thought (Ertel, 1986;Johnson, 2010;Zinczuk-Zielazna & Obrębska, 2016) makes it legitimate to conclude that high certainty of the validity of one's standpoint may often mask anxiety, which is supposed to be reduced by the avoidance of potentially threatening contents. In consequence, this kind of certainty cannot be conducive to openness to the interlocutor's arguments or willingness to change one's views (even to some extent).…”

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“…In his opinion, the cognitive aspect of dogmatism is characterized by attributes such as rigid certainty, intolerance of ambiguity, and defensive cognitive closure. Analyzing the manifestations of dogmatic thinking at the level of language, Ertel (1986) also associates this mechanisms, among other things, with words from the certainty category (e.g., certainly, undoubtedly, obviously). Likewise, Zinczuk-Zielazna and Obrębska (2016) found that individuals with a high level of anxiety (conscious or repressed) used phrases interpreted in the literature as expressions of dogmatism in thinking -including words from the certainty categorysignificantly more often than low-anxiety individuals.…”

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Similarity to the interlocutor, certainty of standpoint, and integrative attitude in an internal dialogue

Puchalska‐Wasyl

2018

RPsych

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Numerous positive functions are ascribed to integrative internal dialogues. It is therefore worth looking for the determinants of dialogue author's integrative attitude, which is understood as openness to the partner's viewpoint as well as readiness to favorably consider their arguments and, consequently, to modify one's own stance. The aim of the present experiment (N = 215) was to check how dialogue author's integrative attitude is influenced by his or her similarity to the imagined interlocutor and by the author's certainty of his or her standpoint. Before the participants conducted an imagined dialogue, they assessed the certainty of their standpoint and wrote down their three positive and three negative characteristics. Some of these characteristics were later presented to them as the traits of their potential interlocutor. Finally, the participants completed the Integration-Confrontation questionnaire, measuring their integrative attitude in the dialogue. I found that dialogue authors who were very certain of their own standpoints exhibited a significantly lower level of integrative attitude than those who were less certain of theirs. Additionally, it turned out that similarity in terms of negative characteristics increased integrative attitude in dialogue authors. No such relationship was observed when a sense of similarity in terms of positive characteristics was induced. This is a surprising result against the background of research on actual relationships, which may attest to the specificity of internal dialogues.

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Similarity to the interlocutor, certainty of standpoint, and integrative attitude in an internal dialogue

Puchalska‐Wasyl

2018

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“…This method, included in the mode of content analysis (Smith, 1996;van Dijk, 1997), consists in counting appropriately selected language elements taken from samples of the studied narratives (Baker, 2006;Kurcz, 2005;Pennebaker, 2007; see also Fairclough, 2001, Reisigl & Wodak, 2009. Changes in the frequency of these elements usually indicate changes in the beliefs of their authors (Ertel, 1972(Ertel, , 1986. In our case, it was not just samples of texts that were considered (selected samples/fragments of the epistles and gospels), but the entire text collections were studied (all epistles and gospels) in order to increase the reliability of the obtained results.…”

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Group Conflicts in Light of the Cratism Theory (Psycholinguistic Analysis)

Citlak

2020

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This article presents an analysis of intergroup relations in light of Władysław Witwicki’s cratism theory. His theory allows social relations to be explained in light of the pursuit for a sense of power, although this has never been verified in the psychological laboratory. Because the cratism theory is largely based on the analysis of social relations described in historical documents, this paper presents an attempt to use its basic assumptions to describe the linguistic behavior (and linguistic picture of the world) of a threatened group. The examined material consisted of religious documents of the first Christians, created before and during the growing conflict with an unfriendly/ antagonistic environment. Frequency analysis shows significant changes in the cratic orientation as well as emotions and the evaluation of the social world in conflict conditions.

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“…The construction of indicators is based on the assumption that "with regard to superfi cial expression, more frequent use of a particular class of expressions in comparison to contrasting expressions reveal certain ways of thinking and perception of reality, known as cognitive styles" (Kurcz 1992, p. 294). In this case, I used three indicators, referring in part to the work of the German linguistic-cultural psychologist Suitbert Ertel, who in the 70s and 80s developed a set of indicators to be used in the study of written texts (these indicators allowed him to capture changes in thinking and cognitive perception of the world present in the structure of a text -Ertel, 1986). Jesus' Sermon on the Mount was subjected to three -appropriately modifi ed -indicators: impersonal narrative references, abstractness and dogmatism.…”

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“…Using this indicator, E. Ertel was able to mark, e.g. distinct changes in its value by analyzing texts of J. Kant before and during the process of writing The Critique of Pure Reason, and also in the German press before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 (Ertel, 1986).…”

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Psychobiography of Jesus Christ in view of Władysław Witwicki’s theory of cratism

Citlak

2015

Journal for Perspectives of Economic Political and Social Integration

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The article is an attempt at a critical evaluation of applying one of the most original theories of Polish psychology, i.e. W. Witwicki's theory of cratism, to the interpretation of the activities and personality of Jesus Christ. The theory of cratism, though it provides substantial explanation possibilities, has been largely forgotten. W. Witwicki used it to try to interpret many aspects of human activity such as art, social relations, as well as the life of ancient fi gures, among others, Socrates and Jesus Christ. Thanks to this, he created the fi rst ever in Polish psychology (and also one of the fi rst in world psychology) psychobiography. The proposal to decipher the activity of Jesus of Nazareth through Witwicki, however, raises large concerns, which discouraged many psychologists, and especially religious environments. I would like to indicate the most controversial moments of his work, while drawing attention to the great value of the theory itself also today, at the beginning of the 21 st century, particularly in the area of historical psychology.

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Language, Thought, and Culture: Toward a Mergence of Diverging Problem Fields

Cited by 8 publications

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Similarity to the interlocutor, certainty of standpoint, and integrative attitude in an internal dialogue

Similarity to the interlocutor, certainty of standpoint, and integrative attitude in an internal dialogue

Group Conflicts in Light of the Cratism Theory (Psycholinguistic Analysis)

Psychobiography of Jesus Christ in view of Władysław Witwicki’s theory of cratism

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