Using masculine generics: Does generic he increase male bias in the user's imagery?
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Hamilton (1988) argued that both hearing and using masculine generics creates male bias in people's impressions and images of the subject under discussion.
“Hamilton (1988) argued that both hearing and using masculine generics creates male bias in people's impressions and images of the subject under discussion.”
From Definitions of Gender and Sex: The Subtleties of Meaning (2000) · cites this paper as Hamilton, 1988
Hamilton (1988) found that participants induced to complete sentence fragments with masculine generics were more likely to imagine the subject as male than those induced to use unbiased neutral words.
“In another study, Hamilton (1988) found that participants who were induced to complete sentence fragments with masculine generics were more likely to imagine the subject of the sentence to be a male than were those participants who had been induced to use unbiased neutral words.”
From Definitions of Gender and Sex: The Subtleties of Meaning (2000) · cites this paper as Hamilton, 1988
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- Authors
- Hamilton, M. C.
- Affiliations
- Centre College (US)
- Corresponding author
- Hamilton, Mykol C.
- Venue
- Sex Roles
- Published
- 1988-12
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 11-12
- Pages
- 785-799
- ISSN
- 0360-0025 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-2762
- OpenAlex
- W2060507188
- Cited by
- 124
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 3.62
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Sex Roles (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender Studies in Language
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Categorization, perception, and language
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Media, Gender, and Advertising
- Keywords
- generic masculine, generic he, gender bias, mental imagery, linguistic relativity, prototypicality, gender-neutral language, sentence completion, gender stereotypes, language and thought
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