Androcentric Preferences for Visuospatial Representations of Gender Differences

Hegarty, Peter; Buechel, Carmen; Ungar, Simon

doi:10.1007/11783183_35

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“…Again, psychologists and experimental participants appear to be similar. In a recent experiment, we found that undergraduates preferred to graph relations between typical and atypical members of natural and social categories by positioning the more typical entity first (Hegarty, Buechel, & Ungar, 2006). In our experiment, as in the research reported here, data about males were displayed before data about females about 75% of the time.…”

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Androcentric Reporting of Gender Differences in APA Journals: 1965–2004

Hegarty

Buechel

2006

Review of General Psychology

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Androcentric thinking assumes maleness to be normative, and attributes gender differences to females. A content analysis of articles reporting gender differences published between 1965 and 2004 in four APA journals examined androcentric pronouns, explanations, and tables and graphs. Few articles used generic masculine pronouns to refer to both women and men. However, explanations of gender differences within articles that mentioned such differences in their abstracts and titles referenced attributes of women significantly more often than attributes of men.

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Androcentric Reporting of Gender Differences in APA Journals: 1965–2004

Hegarty

Buechel

2006

Review of General Psychology

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“…There might be a similar tendency to visually display typical category examples before atypical examples. Hegarty, Buechel, and Ungar (2006) asked participants to graph differences between fruits like oranges and kumquats and found that participants were more likely to position the typical category member, in this case oranges, first in the leftmost position on the horizontal axis.…”

Section: Androcentric Behaviormentioning

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“…Wright, Hay, and Bent (2005) had readers who read left-to-right fill in blanks in sentences using male and female name pairs and found that participants were more likely to position male names first, that is, to the left of female names. Hegarty and colleagues (2006) provided participants with a difference between men and women and asked them to graph it. More often, men were graphed on the left compared with women.…”

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Is Man the Measure of All Things? A Social Cognitive Account of Androcentrism

Bailey

LaFrance

Dovidio

2018

Pers Soc Psychol Rev

112

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Androcentrism refers to the propensity to center society around men and men’s needs, priorities, and values and to relegate women to the periphery. Androcentrism also positions men as the gender-neutral standard while marking women as gender-specific. Examples of androcentrism include the use of male terms (e.g., he), images, and research participants to represent everyone. Androcentrism has been shown to have serious consequences. For example, women’s health has been adversely affected by over-generalized medical research based solely on male participants. Nonetheless, relatively little is known about androcentrism’s proximate psychological causes. In the present review, we propose a social cognitive perspective arguing that both social power and categorization processes are integral to understanding androcentrism. We present and evaluate three possible pathways to androcentrism deriving from (a) men being more frequently instantiated than women, (b) masculinity being more “ideal” than femininity, and/or (c) masculinity being more common than femininity.

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“…Only one published experiment has tested the prototypicality hypothesis directly (Hegarty, Buechel, & Ungar, 2006). In that research, participants drew graphs of gender differences in math and verbal abilities, differences between national ingroups and outgroups in public opinion, differences between prototypical and atypical animals in physical abilities, and differences between prototypical and atypical fruits in vitamin content.…”

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“…In our first study, we aimed to replicate Hegarty et al’s (2006) findings that people habitually graph men first and women second and to investigate Hegarty and Buechel’s (2006) conclusion that this preference is due to implicit representations of men as more prototypical than women.…”

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Graphing the order of the sexes: Constructing, recalling, interpreting, and putting the self in gender difference graphs.

Hegarty¹,

Lemieux²,

McQueen³

2010

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Published as Hegarty, P., Lemieux, A., & McQueen, G. (2010). Graphing the order of the sexes: Constructing, recalling, interpreting, and putting the self in gender difference graphs. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98,[375][376][377][378][379][380][381][382][383][384][385][386][387][388][389][390][391]. AbstractGraphs seem to connote facts more than words or tables do. Consequently, they seem unlikely places to spot implicit sexism at work. Yet, in 6 studies (N _ 741), women and men constructed (Study 1) and recalled (Study 2) gender difference graphs with men's data first, and graphed powerful groups (Study 3) and individuals (Study 4) ahead of weaker ones. Participants who interpreted graph order as evidence of author "bias" inferred that the author graphed his or her own gender group first (Study 5). Women's, but not men's, preferences to graph men first were mitigated when participants graphed a difference between themselves and an opposite-sex friend prior to graphing gender differences (Study 6). Graph production and comprehension are affected by beliefs and suppositions about the groups represented in graphs to a greater degree than cognitive models of graph comprehension or realist models of scientific thinking have yet acknowledged.

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Androcentric Preferences for Visuospatial Representations of Gender Differences

Cited by 6 publications

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Androcentric Reporting of Gender Differences in APA Journals: 1965–2004

Androcentric Reporting of Gender Differences in APA Journals: 1965–2004

Is Man the Measure of All Things? A Social Cognitive Account of Androcentrism

Graphing the order of the sexes: Constructing, recalling, interpreting, and putting the self in gender difference graphs.

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