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The Gendered Order of Things| old_uid | 7736 |
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| title | The Gendered Order of Things |
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| start_date | 2009/12/02 |
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| schedule | 16h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | Cognitive models have rarely considered the social semantics of ordering information about meaningful social groups; in binomial phrases such as 'women or men' or in the ordering of information about groups in graphs, for example. In this talk I will present 16 experimental and observational studies which jointly show that ordering information in such verbal and visual representations of gendered people appears to be much less sematically neutral than either cognitive models or the users of such symbol systems would predict. Rather, men are habitually named first in binomial phrases (such as "Bill and Mary") and depicted first in graphs of gender differences because of common gender stereotypes that men are more powerful agentic kinds of people than women are.
Order preferences are further affected by social identity dynamics, leading to situation-specific gender differences and similarities in the ways that women and men order information about gendered people. |
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| responsibles | Brysbaert |
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