ICPS

2021 APS Virtual Convention

Based on Billions of Words on the Internet, “People = Men”

Virtual

Oral · Social Psychology

By “people” do you actually mean men? We used tools from computational linguistics to show that words for people (e.g., people) have more similar distributed meanings to words for men (e.g., male) than women (e.g., female). We also found a striking asymmetry for gender stereotypes consistent with “people = men.”

Chairs & Discussants

  • April BaileySpeaker
    New York University
  • Adina WilliamsDiscussant
    Facebook
  • Andrei CimpianDiscussant
    New York University