Embodied standpoints in gender difference graphs and tables

When, where, and why are men still prioritized

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12259554
AutoresPeter Hegarty (0000-0002-5487-4075, The Open University, autor correspondente), Amy Parr (University of Surrey)
Ano2023
Volume34
Fascículo1
Páginas26-46
Data de publicação2023-06-20
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoFeminism & Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0959-3535 • E-ISSN: 1461-7161
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/09593535231181240
OpenAlexW4381381644
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas46

Gender difference graphs and tables typically present data representing males first, ahead of data representing females. The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association in 2010 advised authors against this “bias” when reporting gender differences. An experiment examined how this preference is related to embodied cognition, and two content analytic studies examined its persistence despite the American Psychological Association's (APA) advice against it. In Study 1, 256 students drew bar graphs of gender differences and power differences. Participants spontaneously arrayed men first and higher power groups first most often, even when graph axes were placed to cue the opposite order. These results suggest that males-first order preferences follow from embodied biases to position agentic groups left and higher up in graphs and tables. Two content analyses systematically sampled psychology articles in four journals over a decade (Study 2) or 70 journals in a recent year (Study 3) to examine the impact of the APA manual’s advice on authors. The males-first preference remains prevalent in psychology publications, has reversed in Psychology of Women Quarterly (Study 2), and became polarized by author gender in social psychology (Study 3). These findings suggest that embodied cognition affects the visual representation of gender differences in psychology and is variably moderated by recent injunctions

Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Sociology · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies in Language · Philosophy · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology