TY - JOUR
T1 - Of Caring Nurses and Assertive Police Officers
T2 - Social Role Information Overrides Gender Stereotypes in Linguistic Behavior
AU - Gustafsson Sendén, Marie
AU - Eagly, Alice
AU - Sczesny, Sabine
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was funded by a grant from FORTE (Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, 2014-2640).
PY - 2020/8/1
Y1 - 2020/8/1
N2 - Three studies demonstrated the expression of gender stereotypes in linguistic behavior. In Study 1, participants composed sentences describing a person by freely choosing from female- or male-dominated occupations, female or male pronouns, and communal or agentic traits. In Study 2a, participants chose traits to describe a person identified by a female- or male-dominated occupation and in Study 2b by a female or male pronoun and noun. In Study 3, participants chose traits for a person identified by both a female- or male-dominated occupation and a female or male pronoun. In general, participants chose more communal and fewer agentic traits for sentences containing a female- (vs. male-) dominated occupation and a female (vs. male) pronoun or noun. However, participants described women and men in the same occupation as similarly agentic or communal, demonstrating the primacy of role over sex information as predicted by social role theory.
AB - Three studies demonstrated the expression of gender stereotypes in linguistic behavior. In Study 1, participants composed sentences describing a person by freely choosing from female- or male-dominated occupations, female or male pronouns, and communal or agentic traits. In Study 2a, participants chose traits to describe a person identified by a female- or male-dominated occupation and in Study 2b by a female or male pronoun and noun. In Study 3, participants chose traits for a person identified by both a female- or male-dominated occupation and a female or male pronoun. In general, participants chose more communal and fewer agentic traits for sentences containing a female- (vs. male-) dominated occupation and a female (vs. male) pronoun or noun. However, participants described women and men in the same occupation as similarly agentic or communal, demonstrating the primacy of role over sex information as predicted by social role theory.
KW - agency
KW - communion
KW - gender stereotypes
KW - linguistic behavior
KW - sentence-generating task
KW - social role theory
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U2 - 10.1177/1948550619876636
DO - 10.1177/1948550619876636
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85075162163
VL - 11
SP - 743
EP - 751
JO - Social Psychological and Personality Science
JF - Social Psychological and Personality Science
SN - 1948-5506
IS - 6
ER -