Hualin Xiao, PhD

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Strong Gender Equalitarian Convictions Can Make You ‘Misperceive’ Gender Bias in Hiring. Society of Personality and Social Psychology. August 2024.

You might believe that moral sensitivity to gender equality can only be beneficial. After all, moral sensitivity to inequality should help people spot cases of bias against women and minorities and take action to redress them. What could be the problem with that?

We wondered if there might be a downside to sensitivity to inequality. Does moral commitment to gender equality not only make people more accepting of evidence of hiring bias against women but also less critical of fallacious demonstrations of such bias? Click here to access the original post

Misreading the data: Moral convictions influence how we interpret evidence of anti-women biasNew research suggests that strong moral convictions about gender equality lead individuals to be more trustful of rigorous studies showing discrimination, but also bias their judgment, causing them to see discrimination even when evidence suggests otherwise.

News: How Fair is Gender-Fair Language? | DEC Département d'études cognitivesResearch: For some, gender-fair language and writing are indispensable tools for improving the visibility of women in the unconscious and for acting on the sexist biases inherent in our asymmetrical language system. For others, they are dramatic, dangerous and unnecessary additions to our language. But what is the real effect of gender-fair Language on our gender representations? The article "How Fair Is Gender-Fair Language? Insights from Gender Ratio Estimations in French," published in the Journal of Language and Social Psychology, sheds some light on this question. Interview with Hualin Xiao, a recent PhD graduate in cognitive science from the Institut Jean Nicod and first author of the publication.

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