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标题：Man, You Might Look Like a Woman—If a Child Is Next to You
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作者：Aenne A. Brielmann ; Justin Gaetano ; Margarita Stolarova 等
期刊名称：Advances in Cognitive Psychology
电子版ISSN：1895-1171
出版年度：2015
卷号：11
期号：3
页码：84-96
DOI：10.5709/acp-0174-y
语种：English
出版社：Prague Development Center
摘要：Gender categorization seems prone to a pervasive bias: Persons about whom null or ambiguous gender information is available are more often considered male than female. Our study assessed whether such a male-bias is present in non-binary choice tasks and whether it can be altered by social contextual information. Participants were asked to report their perception of an adult figure’s gender in three context conditions: (1) alone, (2) passively besides a child, or (3) actively helping a child (n= 10 pictures each). The response optionsmale,femaleandI don’t knowwere provided. As a result, participants attributed male gender to most figures and rarely used theI don’t knowoption in all conditions, but were more likely to attribute female gender to the same adult figure if it was shown with a child. If such social contextual information was provided in the first rather than the second block of the experiment, subsequent female gender attributions increased for adult figures shown alone. Additionally, female gender attributions for actively helping relative to passive adults were made more often. Thus, we provide strong evidence that gender categorization can be altered by social context even if the subject of gender categorization remains identical.
关键词：enmale-biasgender categorizationsocial perceptionsexsocial context