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- Title
Sex Bias in Visual Images Evoked by Generics: A New Zealand Study.
- Authors
Wilson, Elizabeth; Sik Hung Ng
- Abstract
Male biases are known to exist in the usage, evaluation, and interpretation of masculine generics. This study explored, by means of a tachistoscope, sex- specific biases in visual images evoked by masculine (‘All men are created equal,’ ‘At university a student can study whatever he wants’) and feminine (‘The feminists protested outside the town hall,’ ‘At university a student can study whatever she wants’) generics. Photographs of male and female faces were presented in a deliberately ambiguous (subthreshold) viewing field while maintaining the masculine or feminine generic sentence on constant view. It was predicted and found in a sample of 48 university students that if generics invoked sex-specific images, the images would affect the direction in which the viewer would resolve the ambiguous faces, resulting in more reported male faces in the masculine than in the feminine generic condition.
- Subjects
NEW Zealand; SEXISM in art; SOCIAL perception; SEXISM in education; TACHISTOSCOPE; LANTERN projection; READING machines; FEMININITY; MASCULINITY; SEXUAL psychology
- Publication
Sex Roles, 1988, Vol 18, Issue 3-4, p159
- ISSN
0360-0025
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00287786