#9210. How and when does syntax perpetuate stereotypes? Probing the framing effects of subject-complement statements of equality

November 2026publication date
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Philosophy;
Psychology (miscellaneous);
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology;
Gender Studies
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Abstract:
Although subject-complement statements like “girls are as good as boys at math” appear to express gender equality, people infer a gender difference: the group in the complement position (boys) is judged superior. We investigated (1) whether this syntactic framing effect generalizes to other socially charged inferences and (2) whether awareness of the bias implied by the syntax mitigates its influence.
Keywords:
gender; inference; Linguistic framing; pragmatics; syntax; terrorism

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