TY - JOUR
T1 - Activating gender stereotypes during online spoken language processing evidence from visual world eye tracking
AU - Pyykkonen, Pirita
AU - Hyona, Jukka
AU - van-Gompel, Roger P. G.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - This study used the visual world eye-tracking method to investigate activation of general world knowledge related to gender-stereotypical role names in online spoken language comprehension in Finnish. The results showed that listeners activated gender stereotypes elaboratively in story contexts where this information was not needed to build coherence. Furthermore, listeners made additional inferences based on gender stereotypes to revise an already established coherence relation. Both results are consistent with mental models theory (e.g., Garnham, 2001). They are harder to explain by the minimalist account (McKoon & Ratcliff, 1992), which suggests that people limit inferences to those needed to establish coherence in discourse.
AB - This study used the visual world eye-tracking method to investigate activation of general world knowledge related to gender-stereotypical role names in online spoken language comprehension in Finnish. The results showed that listeners activated gender stereotypes elaboratively in story contexts where this information was not needed to build coherence. Furthermore, listeners made additional inferences based on gender stereotypes to revise an already established coherence relation. Both results are consistent with mental models theory (e.g., Garnham, 2001). They are harder to explain by the minimalist account (McKoon & Ratcliff, 1992), which suggests that people limit inferences to those needed to establish coherence in discourse.
U2 - 10.1027/1618-3169/a000016
DO - 10.1027/1618-3169/a000016
M3 - Article
C2 - 20178931
SN - 1618-3169
VL - 57
SP - 126
EP - 133
JO - Experimental Psychology
JF - Experimental Psychology
IS - 2
ER -