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Comprehending Pronouns: A Role for Word-Specific Gender Stereotype Information

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, May 2003
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Title
Comprehending Pronouns: A Role for Word-Specific Gender Stereotype Information
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Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, May 2003
DOI 10.1023/a:1023599719948
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Authors

Shelia M. Kennison, Jessie L. Trofe

Abstract

The research investigated how word-specific gender stereotype information can be used during language comprehension. In a rating study, the gender stereotypes for 405 noun and noun compounds were assessed. From these norms, 32 words strongly stereotyped to refer mostly to males and 32 words strongly stereotyped to refer mostly to females were selected and used in a reading experiment. Comprehenders read pairs of sentences. The subject of the first sentence was a gender stereotyped word (e.g., executive or secretary). The subject of the second sentence was either the pronoun he or she. Reading time was significantly longer when gender of the pronoun mismatched the gender stereotype of the antecedent than when the genders of pronoun and antecedent matched. This gender mismatch effect occurred on the two regions immediately following the region containing the pronoun. The results indicated that word-specific gender stereotypes can influence coreference resolution of pronouns.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 122 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 17%
Student > Master 16 13%
Researcher 15 12%
Student > Bachelor 15 12%
Professor > Associate Professor 10 8%
Other 25 20%
Unknown 23 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Linguistics 43 34%
Psychology 38 30%
Computer Science 5 4%
Social Sciences 4 3%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 2%
Other 7 6%
Unknown 25 20%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 September 2022.
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#2,129,322
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#11
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#2,535
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