Beyond Sexist Beliefs: How Do People Decide to Use Gender-Inclusive Language?

被引:47
作者
Sczesny, Sabine [1 ]
Moser, Franziska [2 ]
Wood, Wendy [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Bern, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
[2] Univ Appl Sci & Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Basel, Switzerland
[3] Univ So Calif, Los Angeles, CA USA
关键词
gender stereotypes; language production; grammatical gender; gender-inclusive language; sexism; PAST BEHAVIOR; ATTITUDES; HABIT; WOMEN; INTENTIONS; ENGLISH; PRONOUN; FEMALE; INDEX;
D O I
10.1177/0146167215585727
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
When people use generic masculine language instead of more gender-inclusive forms, they communicate gender stereotypes and sometimes exclusion of women from certain social roles. Past research related gender-inclusive language use to sexist beliefs and attitudes. Given that this aspect of language use may be transparent to users, it is unclear whether people explicitly act on these beliefs when using gender-exclusive language forms or whether these are more implicit, habitual patterns. In two studies with German-speaking participants, we showed that spontaneous use of gender-inclusive personal nouns is guided by explicitly favorable intentions as well as habitual processes involving past use of such language. Further indicating the joint influence of deliberate and habitual processes, Study 2 revealed that language-use intentions are embedded in explicit sexist ideologies. As anticipated in our decision-making model, the effects of sexist beliefs on language emerged through deliberate mechanisms involving attitudes and intentions.
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页码:943 / 954
页数:12
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