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/...

Pollyanna principle 😉

This is really interesting. The positivity bias hypothesis mentioned in the GD seems like a potentially plausible explanation given the striking difference in expressions. I'm also curious if you think you'd get differences for human vs. person?

"Little prior work has addressed androcentrism in mental imagery rather than in language." Nice use of reverse correlation. Reading now with interest!