The male bias of a generically-intended masculine pronoun: Evidence from eye-tracking and sentence evaluation.
Two experiments tested whether the Dutch possessive pronoun zijn 'his' gives rise to a gender inference and thus causes a male bias when used generically in sentences such as Everyone was putting on his shoes. Experiment 1 (N = 120, 48 male) was a conceptual replication of a previous eye-t...
Main Authors: | Theresa Redl, Stefan L Frank, Peter de Swart, Helen de Hoop |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2021-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249309 |
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