Rating gender stereotype violations: The effects of personality and politics

Frontiers in Communication

Communication

Juhani Järvikivi¹  Stephanie Hammond-Thrasher² 

[1] Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada;null;

关键词: psycholinguistics;    social language comprehension;    gender stereotypes;    personality;    political ideology;    disgust sensitivity;    empathy;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fcomm.2023.1050662

 received in 2022-09-22, accepted in 2023-01-23,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

The Gender Stereotype Effect in language comprehension refers to the increased processing load that occurs when comprehenders encounter linguistic information that is incongruent with their understanding of gender stereotypes; for example, upon encountering the pronoun he in the sentence The maid answered the phone because he heard it ring. We investigate the Stereotype Effect using appropriateness and correctness ratings and ask whether it is modulated by individual differences in participants' personality and political ideology. Results from this study indicate that the Stereotype Effect can be replicated in an offline paradigm and that the Effect is specific to a discourse character's gender: sentences describing male agents fulfilling stereotypical female roles were rated lower in both appropriateness and correctness than sentences describing female agents fulfilling stereotypical male roles. Further, more open, conscientious, liberal, and empathetic individuals were more sensitive to the character gender-specific effect, rating stereotype incongruent sentences, particularly female role-male pronoun pairings, lower than congruent ones. Overall, these results point to certain individual differences being associated with differences in the strength of stereotype perception, indicating the possibility that these individuals use more top-down language processing, where comprehenders higher on these scales might be able to make more use of extra-linguistic, sociocultural factors in their language comprehension. Additionally, the results indicate a character gender-based difference in sociocultural stereotypes.

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