Responding to Lexical Stimuli With Gender Associations
@article{Bojarska2013RespondingTL, title={Responding to Lexical Stimuli With Gender Associations}, author={Katarzyna Bojarska}, journal={Journal of Language and Social Psychology}, year={2013}, volume={32}, pages={46 - 61} }
This article presents a cognitive–cultural model (CC model) of situational, dispositional, and motivational factors affecting gender-associational responses to lexical expressions concerning people. It is argued that the mind is trained to perceive gender as an indispensable human feature. When decoding the meaning of a message, it will search for cues of gender, usually prioritizing the semantic content. When gender is not clearly specified, the mind attempts to plausibly reconstruct missing…
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