Sex bias in psychological research: Progress or complacency?

Gannon, Linda; Luchetta, Tracy; Rhodes, Kelly; Pardie, Lynn; Segrist, Dan J.

doi:10.1037/0003-066x.47.3.389

Cited by 109 publications

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“…The study drew conceptually on feminist research (e.g., Diekman, Eagly, & Johnson, 2010;Gannon, Luchetta, Rhodes, Pardie, & Segrist, 1992;Sherif, 1998;Voss & Gannon, 1978) and content analyses of psychological literature (e.g., Ader & Johnson, 1994;Edwards & Pedrotti, 2008;Morin, 1977), in its assumption that scientific language about participant groups both represents and perpetuates ideology. We evaluated article records (i.e., abstracts, keywords, subjects, titles, etc.)…”

Section: The Present Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

Cisgenderism in psychology: pathologising and misgendering children from 1999 to 2008

Ansara

Hegarty

2012

Psychology & Sexuality

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Abstract:We assessed whether recent psychological literature on children reflects or contrasts with the zeitgeist of American Psychological Association's recent non-discrimination statement on 'transgender' and 'gender variant' individuals. Article records (N = 94) on childhood 'gender identity' and 'expression' published between 1999 and 2008 inclusive were evaluated for two kinds of cisgenderism, the ideology that invalidates or pathologises self-designated genders that contrast with external designations. Misgendering language contradicts children's own gender assignations and was less frequent than pathologising language which constructs children's own gender assignations and expression as disordered. Articles on children's gender identity/expression are increasingly impactful within psychology. Cisgenderism is neither increasing nor decreasing overall. Mental health professionals are more cisgenderist than other authors. Articles by members of an 'invisible college' structured around the most prolific author in this area are more cisgenderist and impactful than other articles. We suggest how authors and editors can implement American Psychological Association policy and change scientific discourse about children's genders.

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Section: The Present Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

Cisgenderism in psychology: pathologising and misgendering children from 1999 to 2008

Ansara

Hegarty

2012

Psychology & Sexuality

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“…Third, research psychologists acknowledged that they were vulnerable to androcentric biases and took steps to mitigate them. The American Psychological Association explicitly prohibited use of the generic 'he,' on the grounds that it was androcentric (e.g., APA Publication Manual Task Force, 1977), and research published since that time has complied with this directive (Gannon et al, 1992).…”

Section: Androcentric Thinking In Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Two articles each contained one use each of 'she' as a generic pronoun. Psychologists no longer use androcentric pronouns in their research publications (c.f., APA Publication Manual Task Force, 1977;Gannon et al, 1992).…”

Section: Androcentric Pronoun Usementioning

confidence: 99%

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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“…It should first be noted that a similar approach has been used to represent various areas of psychology in past studies (e.g., Robins et al 1999;Gannon et al 1992;Graham 1992). The selected APA journals are not just any journals.…”

Section: On Potential Criticisms and Limitations Of Arnett's Workmentioning

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Socio-Cultural Imbalances in AIED Research: Investigations, Implications and Opportunities

Blanchard¹

2014

Int J Artif Intell Educ

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This paper investigates international representations in the Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) research field. Its methodological and theoretical groundings are inspired by Arnett (2008) and Henrich et al. (2010a) who addressed the same issue in psychology, and respectively a) discovered massive imbalances in representation in top-tier psychology journals, and b) clarified risks of this situation. Data on research production collected on 2 top-tiers AIED conferences indicate that relatively similar imbalances exist in AIED. Potential threats and challenges induced by that situation are discussed as well as additionally identified phenomena related to the culture of the AIED community.

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Sex bias in psychological research: Progress or complacency?

Cited by 109 publications

References 16 publications

Cisgenderism in psychology: pathologising and misgendering children from 1999 to 2008

Cisgenderism in psychology: pathologising and misgendering children from 1999 to 2008

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

Socio-Cultural Imbalances in AIED Research: Investigations, Implications and Opportunities

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