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Gender is not simply a matter of black and white, or is it?

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dc.contributor.authorSemin, Gün R.
dc.contributor.authorPalma, A. T.
dc.contributor.authorAcarturk, Cengiz
dc.contributor.authorDziuba, Aleksandra
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-20T14:10:49Z
dc.date.available2018-07-20T14:10:49Z
dc.date.issued2018-06
dc.description.abstractBased on research in physical anthropology, we argue that brightness marks the abstract category of gender, with light colours marking the female gender and dark colours marking the male gender. In a set of three experiments, we examine this hypothesis, first in a speeded gender classification experiment with male and female names presented in black and white. As expected, male names in black and female names in white are classified faster than the reverse gender-colour combinations. The second experiment relies on a gender classification task involving the disambiguation of very briefly appearing non-descript stimuli in the form of black and white 'blobs'. The former are classified predominantly as male and the latter as female names. Finally, the processes driving light and dark object choices for males and females are examined by tracking the number of fixations and their duration in an eye-tracking experiment. The results reveal that when choosing for a male target, participants look longer and make more fixations on dark objects, and the same for light objects when choosing for a female target. The implications of these findings, which repeatedly reveal the same data patterns across experiments with Dutch, Portuguese and Turkish samples for the abstract category of gender, are discussed. The discussion attempts to enlarge the subject beyond mainstream models of embodied grounding.This article is part of the theme issue 'Varieties of abstract concepts: development, use and representation in the brain'.pt_PT
dc.description.sponsorshipFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia - FCTpt_PT
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dc.identifier.citationPhilosophical Transactions B, 373(1752), 1-9. Doi: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0126pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.1098/rstb.2017.0126pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn1471-2970
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/6525
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherEuropean Royal Societypt_PT
dc.relationSTEREOTYPING IS FOR DOING: FINE-TUNING OF STEREOTYPES ACROSS SOCIAL CONTEXTS
dc.relationSexual dimorphism in skin color and its implications for gender grounding
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectGrounding genderpt_PT
dc.subjectColour and genderpt_PT
dc.subjectCategorizationpt_PT
dc.subjectEye trackingpt_PT
dc.subjectDisambiguatingpt_PT
dc.subjectAmorphous stimulipt_PT
dc.titleGender is not simply a matter of black and white, or is it?pt_PT
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oaire.awardTitleSTEREOTYPING IS FOR DOING: FINE-TUNING OF STEREOTYPES ACROSS SOCIAL CONTEXTS
oaire.awardTitleSexual dimorphism in skin color and its implications for gender grounding
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oaire.citation.conferencePlaceUnited Kingdompt_PT
oaire.citation.endPage9pt_PT
oaire.citation.issue1752pt_PT
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oaire.citation.titlePhilosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciencespt_PT
oaire.citation.volume373pt_PT
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person.givenNameIgor R.
person.givenNameTomás
person.givenNameCengiz
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