Archival records and laboratory experiments jointly reveal how hate speech functions

Evidence

In conclusion, the prevalence, and the potential consequences, of the use of antilocutions, ethnonyms, and ethnophaulisms make the empirical study of hate speech one of the most timely and vital topics of social-psychological research. … On the one hand, the relative contributions of complexity and valence ethnophaulisms, and the impact of ethnophaulisms on exclusion, could only have been discovered by scrutinizing the existing historical record of hate speech. On the other hand, these patterns, once observed, were confirmed and further explored in controlled laboratory experiments. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1301

Categorization

• XREF: The archival-then-experimental method echoes Milgrom’s use of historical trade records verified against game-theoretic models.