Strategic Processing of Gender Stereotypes in Sentence Comprehension: An ERP Study.

ABSTRACT: Gender stereotypes are often involved in language comprehension. This study investigated whether and to what extent their processing is under strategic control, by examining both proportion and order effects related to gender stereotypes for role nouns. We manipulated stereotypical gender consistencies, as in "Li's daughter/son was a nurse…", the relative proportions of gender-consistent and gender-inconsistent sentences (80%:20% and 50%:50% for high-proportion and equal-proportion sessions, respectively), and a between-participant factor of session order (high-proportion sessions preceding equal-proportion sessions and a reversed order for the high-equal and equal-high groups, respectively). Linear mixed-effect models revealed a larger N400 and a larger late negativity for stereotypically

SUBMITTER: Du Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10136608 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature