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When Gender Matters in Scientific Communication: The Role of Generic Language
Sex Roles ( IF 3.812 ) Pub Date : 2021-08-21 , DOI: 10.1007/s11199-021-01240-7
Jasmine M. DeJesus 1 , Valerie A. Umscheid 2 , Susan A. Gelman 2
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Prior research has documented gender differences in self-presentation and self-promotion. For example, a recent analysis of scientific publications in the biomedical sciences reveals that articles with women in lead author positions (first and last) included fewer positive words to describe their results than articles with men in lead author positions. Here we examined the role of gender in peer-reviewed publications in psychology, with a focus on generic language. When authors describe their results using generic statements (e.g., “Introverts and extraverts require different learning environments”), those statements gloss over variability, frame an idea as broad, timeless, and universally true, and have been judged to be more important. In a sample of 1,149 psychology articles published in 2015–16 from 11 journals, we found that women in lead author positions were less likely to employ generic language than men in lead author positions, and that publications with more generic language received more citations (as did publications authored by men). We discuss how a subtle gender difference in self-presentation may have direct consequences for how a scientific finding is interpreted and cited, with potential downstream consequences for career advancement for women and men.



中文翻译:

当性别在科学传播中很重要时:通用语言的作用

先前的研究记录了自我展示和自我推销的性别差异。例如,最近对生物医学科学出版物的分析表明,与男性担任主要作者的文章相比,女性担任主要作者职位(第一和最后)的文章包含较少的正面词来描述其结果。在这里,我们研究了性别在同行评审的心理学出版物中的作用,重点是通用语言。当作者使用一般性陈述(例如,“内向者和外向者需要不同的学习环境”)描述他们的结果时,这些陈述掩盖了可变性,将一个想法框定为广泛、永恒和普遍正确,并且被认为更重要。在 2015-16 年发表的 1149 篇心理学文章样本中,来自 11 个期刊,我们发现,与担任主要作者职位的男性相比,担任主要作者职位的女性使用通用语言的可能性更小,使用通用语言的出版物获得更多引用(男性撰写的出版物也是如此)。我们讨论了自我表现中微妙的性别差异如何对科学发现的解释和引用方式产生直接影响,并对女性和男性的职业发展产生潜在的下游影响。

更新日期:2021-08-21
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