Discourse Context Immediately Overrides Gender Stereotypes during Discourse Reading: Evidence from ERPs.

ABSTRACT: This study investigated how local gender stereotype information interacts with discourse context during Chinese discourse reading. Event-related potentials were recorded while participants read two-sentence discourses, in which the first sentence provided the discourse context that either introduced a gender stereotype-countering attitude towards roles, such as "One should strive for the target job, and getting a job should not be restricted by gender"., or was neutral. The second sentence contained the critical clause in which the stereotypical gender of the object noun (a role name) was either consistent or inconsistent with the gender specified by the head noun (a kinship term) of the subject noun phrase, as in "Li's [daughter/son] became a nurse…". The object nouns elicited a larger N4

SUBMITTER: Du Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10046660 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature