Ladies First: Gender Stereotypes Drive Anticipatory Eye-Movements During Incremental Sentence Interpretation

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dc.article.number100754
dc.contributor.authorGuerra E.
dc.contributor.authorBernotat J.
dc.contributor.authorBernotat J.
dc.contributor.authorBohner G.
dc.contributor.authorCarvacho H.
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-31T14:30:17Z
dc.date.available2024-01-31T14:30:17Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstract© Copyright © 2021 Guerra, Bernotat, Carvacho and Bohner.Immediate contextual information and world knowledge allow comprehenders to anticipate incoming language in real time. The cognitive mechanisms that underlie such behavior are, however, still only partially understood. We examined the novel idea that gender attitudes may influence how people make predictions during sentence processing. To this end, we conducted an eye-tracking experiment where participants listened to passive-voice sentences expressing gender-stereotypical actions (e.g., “The wood is being painted by the florist”) while observing displays containing both female and male characters representing gender-stereotypical professions (e.g., florists, soldiers). In addition, we assessed participants’ explicit gender-related attitudes to explore whether they might predict potential effects of gender-stereotypical information on anticipatory eye movements. The observed gaze pattern reflected that participants used gendered information to predict who was agent of the action. These effects were larger for female- vs. male-stereotypical contextual information but were not related to participants’ gender-related attitudes. Our results showed that predictive language processing can be moderated by gender stereotypes, and that anticipation is stronger for female (vs. male) depicted characters. Further research should test the direct relation between gender-stereotypical sentence processing and implicit gender attitudes. These findings contribute to both social psychology and psycholinguistics research, as they extend our understanding of stereotype processing in multimodal contexts and regarding the role of attitudes (on top of world knowledge) in language prediction.
dc.description.funderCITEC
dc.description.funderCentre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies
dc.description.funderCognitive Interaction Technology Excellence Cluster
dc.description.funderInterdisciplinary Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Studies
dc.description.funderGerman Research Council
dc.description.funderFONDECYT
dc.format.extent14 páginas
dc.fuente.origenScopus
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/fpsyg.2021.589429
dc.identifier.eisbn978-3-030-28856-3
dc.identifier.eissn16641078
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-030-28855-6
dc.identifier.issn16641078
dc.identifier.pubmedidMEDLINE:34276460
dc.identifier.scopusidSCOPUS_ID:85110426307
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.589429
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/81140
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000673300000001
dc.information.autorucFacultad de Ciencias Sociales; Carvacho Garcia, Hector Sebastian; S/I; 17351
dc.issue.numero589429
dc.language.isoen
dc.nota.accesoSin adjunto
dc.pagina.final31
dc.pagina.inicio22
dc.publisherSPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG
dc.relation.ispartofPediatric Obesity
dc.revistaFrontiers in Psychology
dc.rightsregistro bibliográfico
dc.subjectanticipatory eye movements
dc.subjectexplicit beliefs
dc.subjecteye tracking
dc.subjectgender stereotypes
dc.subjectlanguage comprehension
dc.subject.ddc610
dc.subject.deweyMedicina y saludes_ES
dc.titleLadies First: Gender Stereotypes Drive Anticipatory Eye-Movements During Incremental Sentence Interpretation
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen12
sipa.codpersvinculados17351
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.indexScopus
sipa.trazabilidadCarga SIPA;31-01-2024
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