New work in GPIR co-led by @kunstjonas.bsky.social, Marilena Juettemeier, & me! Prior work finds evidence that the (proto)typical person is a man e.g., people list men as examples of "humanity" and "person" concepts overlap more with "male" than "female" in large-scale text corpora

JRkunstjonas.bsky.socialOct 29, 2023 11:14am

Contrary to our expectations, in a new paper published in GPIR, we find that people across various cultures seem more likely to mentally represent a "typical person" as a woman than as a man. The article is available open access at journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In mental imagery of faces, we thus expected to ALSO find that the "typical person" is visualized more as male To our surprise there was no evidence for this If anything, participants' mental image of the face of a "typical person" overlapped more with their image of a "woman"