Norming Study - Identifying the social persona associated with inclusive and masculine forms in French
Year: 2026
Type: study-registration
Abstract: This study is a norming study for future experiments. It is based on a production experiment that suggested that three French gender-writing forms (generic masculine, e.g. les étudiants; mid-dot, les étudiant·e·s; parentheses, les étudiant(e)s) are associated with distinct social personae (Pozniak, Thiberge et al. submitted). We generated pictures of people embodying these personae from the production data in two visual styles: drawings and photographs. Our norming study has two aims. First, to select, for each written form, the picture(s) that participants most consistently associate with that form. Second, to decide which picture type (drawing or photograph) will be used in the following experiments. Participants describe each picture in their own words, then choose which of the three written forms best matches the person shown.
Source: Open Science Framework
Language: English
Topic: Gender Studies in Language
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7222733713