Browsing by Subject "Gender expression"

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    The Effects of Category Accessibility Level on the Efficiency and Intentionality of Gender and Category Judgments
    (1995) Burrus, Jodi
    The purpose of this experiment was to analyze the effects of a subject's gender category accessibility level on the efficiency and intentionality of processing social stimuli. For the efficiency measure the subjects' task was to determine if a label described a picture. It was expected that subjects with high gender category accessibility would have faster reaction times to gender labels than subjects with low gender category accessibility. For the intentionality measure the subjects' task was to determine if two pictures were the same or different with respect to a given label. It was expected that high gender category accessibility subjects would respond slower than low gender category accessibility subjects. This was expected to occur when the subject was making a judgment about a less accessible category that was incongruent with the judgment that would be made about a more accessible category. The results of this study suggest that the gender categories are highly accessible to most people and therefore they influence the processing of social stimuli. Furthermore, the results imply that variability in gender category accessibility may affect the judgments of very inaccessible categories and subjective judgments.
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    The Effects of Gender Category Accessibility and Task Presentation on Speed of Categorization
    (1995) Montoya, Patricia N.; Perloe, Sidney; Boltz, Marilyn
    This study investigated a subject's speed of gender categorization as a function of their category accessibility (high/low) as determined by their masculinity and femininity scorings by questionnaire. Two tasks (1-picture and 2-picture, between subjects) required them to judge pictures that were congruent or incongruent for gender. Hypotheses predicted that high gender subjects would have faster RTs than low gender subjects in the 1-picture task. High gender subjects in the 2-picture task would be slower than low gender subjects to respond to incongruent pictures, when gender was not being asked, due to having gender as chronically accessible. Results were inconclusive with regards to categorization of gender being an automatic process, however, they suggest that a hierarchy in category accessibility may exist with gender, race, and age. These findings open new avenues for future research.