Breaking Away From the Male Stereotype of a Specialist: Gendered Language Affects Performance in a Thinking Task
This experimental online-survey study investigated if different written language forms in German have an effect on male bias in thinking. We used answers to the specialist riddle as an indicator for male bias in mental representations of expertise. The difficulty of this thinking task lies in the fa...
Main Authors: | Marlene Kollmayer, Andreas Pfaffel, Barbara Schober, Laura Brandt |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2018-06-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00985/full |
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