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Perceptual Simulation in Gender Categorization: Associations between Gender, Vertical Height, and Spatial Size

The current studies extend perceptual symbol systems theory to the processing of gender categorization by revealing that gender categorization recruits perceptual simulations of spatial height and size dimensions. In study 1, categorization of male faces were faster when the faces were in the “up” (...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Xiaobin, Li, Qiong, Eskine, Kendall J., Zuo, Bin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3934924/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24587022
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0089768
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Li, Qiong
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description The current studies extend perceptual symbol systems theory to the processing of gender categorization by revealing that gender categorization recruits perceptual simulations of spatial height and size dimensions. In study 1, categorization of male faces were faster when the faces were in the “up” (i.e., higher on the vertical axis) rather than the “down” (i.e., lower on the vertical axis) position and vice versa for female face categorization. Study 2 found that responses to male names depicted in larger font were faster than male names depicted in smaller font, whereas opposite response patterns were given for female names. Study 3 confirmed that the effect in Study 2 was not due to metaphoric relationships between gender and social power. Together, these findings suggest that representation of gender (social categorization) also involves processes of perceptual simulation.
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spelling pubmed-39349242014-03-04 Perceptual Simulation in Gender Categorization: Associations between Gender, Vertical Height, and Spatial Size Zhang, Xiaobin Li, Qiong Eskine, Kendall J. Zuo, Bin PLoS One Research Article The current studies extend perceptual symbol systems theory to the processing of gender categorization by revealing that gender categorization recruits perceptual simulations of spatial height and size dimensions. In study 1, categorization of male faces were faster when the faces were in the “up” (i.e., higher on the vertical axis) rather than the “down” (i.e., lower on the vertical axis) position and vice versa for female face categorization. Study 2 found that responses to male names depicted in larger font were faster than male names depicted in smaller font, whereas opposite response patterns were given for female names. Study 3 confirmed that the effect in Study 2 was not due to metaphoric relationships between gender and social power. Together, these findings suggest that representation of gender (social categorization) also involves processes of perceptual simulation. Public Library of Science 2014-02-25 /pmc/articles/PMC3934924/ /pubmed/24587022 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0089768 Text en © 2014 Zhang et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Perceptual Simulation in Gender Categorization: Associations between Gender, Vertical Height, and Spatial Size
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3934924/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24587022
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0089768
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