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Role descriptions induce gender mismatch effects in eye movements during reading

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Title
Role descriptions induce gender mismatch effects in eye movements during reading
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, November 2015
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01607
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Chiara Reali, Yulia Esaulova, Anton Öttl, Lisa von Stockhausen

Abstract

The present eye-tracking study investigates the effect of gender typicality on the resolution of anaphoric personal pronouns in English. Participants read descriptions of a person performing a typically male, typically female or gender-neutral occupational activity. The description was followed by an anaphoric reference (he or she) which revealed the referent's gender. The first experiment presented roles which were highly typical for men (e.g., blacksmith) or for women (e.g., beautician), the second experiment presented role descriptions with a moderate degree of gender typicality (e.g., psychologist, lawyer). Results revealed a gender mismatch effect in early and late measures in the first experiment and in early stages in the second experiment. Moreover, eye-movement data for highly typical roles correlated with explicit typicality ratings. The results are discussed from a cross-linguistic perspective, comparing natural gender languages and grammatical gender languages. An interpretation of the cognitive representation of typicality beliefs is proposed.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 35 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 7 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 17%
Student > Bachelor 5 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 9%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 3 9%
Other 4 11%
Unknown 7 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Linguistics 11 31%
Psychology 10 29%
Engineering 2 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 3%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 3%
Other 4 11%
Unknown 6 17%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. 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 03 November 2015.
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#16,615,464
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