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Activating Gender Stereotypes During Online Spoken Language Processing Evidence From Visual World Eye Tracking




AuthorsPyykkonen P, Hyona J, van Gompel RPG

PublisherHOGREFE & HUBER PUBLISHERS

Publication year2010

JournalExperimental Psychology

Journal name in sourceEXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

Journal acronymEXP PSYCHOL

Number in series2

Volume57

Issue2

First page 126

Last page133

Number of pages8

ISSN1618-3169

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000016


Abstract
This study used the visual world eye-tracking method to investigate activation of general world knowledge related to gender-stereotypical role names in online spoken language comprehension in Finnish. The results showed that listeners activated gender stereotypes elaboratively in story contexts where this information was not needed to build coherence. Furthermore, listeners made additional inferences based on gender stereotypes to revise an already established coherence relation. Both results are consistent with mental models theory (e.g., Garnham, 2001). They are harder to explain by the minimalist account (McKoon & Ratcliff, 1992), which suggests that people limit inferences to those needed to establish coherence in discourse.



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