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Hegarty, P. and Buechel, C.
(2006).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/1089-2680.10.4.377
Abstract
Androcentric thinking assumes maleness to be normative and attributes gender differences to females. A content analysis of articles reporting gender differences published between 1965 and 2004 in four American Psychological Association journals examined androcentric pronouns, explanations, and tables and graphs. Few articles used generic masculine pronouns to refer to both women and men. However, explanations of gender differences within articles that mentioned such differences in their abstracts and titles referenced attributes of women significantly more often than attributes of men. Most tables and graphs depicting gender differences positioned males' data before females' data, except when gender differences among parents were concerned. Psychologists have ceased to use male-centered pronouns, but female and male psychologists continue to report, explain, and depict gender differences in androcentric ways.
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- Item ORO ID
- 77002
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- Keywords
- gender differences; androcentrism; explanations; diagrams; category norms sexist language; masculine generics; social constructionism; psychological-research; graph comprehension; category norms; stereotypes; women; bias; hypothesis
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Psychology and Counselling > Psychology
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Psychology and Counselling
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- Peter Hegarty