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Ladies First or Ladies Last: Do Masculine Generics Evoke a Reduced and Later Retrieval of Female Exemplars?

Keith, Nina ; Hartwig, Kristine ; Richter, Tobias (2022)
Ladies First or Ladies Last: Do Masculine Generics Evoke a Reduced and Later Retrieval of Female Exemplars?
In: Collabra: Psychology, 2022, 8 (1)
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00021459
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Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract)

The use of masculine generics (i.e., grammatically masculine forms that refer to both men and women) is prevalent in many languages but has been criticized for potentially triggering male bias. Empirical evidence for this claim exists but is often based on small and selective samples. This study is a high-powered and pre-registered replication and extension of a 20-year-old study on this biasing effect in German speakers. Under 1 of 4 conditions (masculine generics vs. three gender-inclusive alternatives), 344 participants listed 3 persons of 6 popular occupational categories (e.g., athletes, politicians). Despite 20 years of societal changes, results were remarkably similar, underscoring the high degree of automaticity involved in language comprehension (large effects of 0.71 to 1.12 of a standard deviation). Male bias tended to be particularly pronounced later rather than early in retrieval, suggesting that salient female exemplars may be recalled first but that male exemplars still dominate the overall categorical representations.

Typ des Eintrags: Artikel
Erschienen: 2022
Autor(en): Keith, Nina ; Hartwig, Kristine ; Richter, Tobias
Art des Eintrags: Zweitveröffentlichung
Titel: Ladies First or Ladies Last: Do Masculine Generics Evoke a Reduced and Later Retrieval of Female Exemplars?
Sprache: Englisch
Publikationsjahr: 2022
Publikationsdatum der Erstveröffentlichung: 2022
Verlag: University of California Press
Titel der Zeitschrift, Zeitung oder Schriftenreihe: Collabra: Psychology
Jahrgang/Volume einer Zeitschrift: 8
(Heft-)Nummer: 1
Kollation: 16 Seiten
DOI: 10.26083/tuprints-00021459
URL / URN: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/21459
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Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract):

The use of masculine generics (i.e., grammatically masculine forms that refer to both men and women) is prevalent in many languages but has been criticized for potentially triggering male bias. Empirical evidence for this claim exists but is often based on small and selective samples. This study is a high-powered and pre-registered replication and extension of a 20-year-old study on this biasing effect in German speakers. Under 1 of 4 conditions (masculine generics vs. three gender-inclusive alternatives), 344 participants listed 3 persons of 6 popular occupational categories (e.g., athletes, politicians). Despite 20 years of societal changes, results were remarkably similar, underscoring the high degree of automaticity involved in language comprehension (large effects of 0.71 to 1.12 of a standard deviation). Male bias tended to be particularly pronounced later rather than early in retrieval, suggesting that salient female exemplars may be recalled first but that male exemplars still dominate the overall categorical representations.

Status: Verlagsversion
URN: urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-214591
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Keywords: androcentrism, sexism, language, gender, Gendersternchen

Sachgruppe der Dewey Dezimalklassifikatin (DDC): 100 Philosophie und Psychologie > 150 Psychologie
Fachbereich(e)/-gebiet(e): 03 Fachbereich Humanwissenschaften
03 Fachbereich Humanwissenschaften > Institut für Psychologie
03 Fachbereich Humanwissenschaften > Institut für Psychologie > Organisations- und Wirtschaftspsychologie
Hinterlegungsdatum: 02 Jun 2022 11:07
Letzte Änderung: 08 Jun 2022 09:04
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