Towards an operationalization of the fundamental dimensions of agency and communion: Trait content ratings in five countries considering valence and frequency of word occurrence

By A. Abele, Mirjam Uchronski, Caterina Suitner, Bogdan Wojciszke. 2008

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Comprehensive stereotype content dictionaries using a semi‐automated method (2020, methodology): “We reviewed the literature (Abele et al., 2008, 2016; Fiske et al., 2002; Koch et al., 2016; Oosterhof & Todorov, 2008; Wojciszke et al., 2011) for lists of words used to measure friendliness/sociability, morality/trustworthiness, ability, assertiveness/ dominance, status, political beliefs, and…”
Gender Stereotypes in Natural Language: Word Embeddings Show Robust Consistency Across Child and Adult Language Corpora of More Than 65 Million Words (2021, unknown): “The general content reflected in these qualitative descriptions appears to align with adults’ explicit reports that men are agentic and competent, whereas women are communal and warm (Abele, Uchronski, Suitner, & Wojciszke, 2008; Fiske et al., 2002).”
The bigger one of the "Big Two"? Preferential processing of communal information (2011, background): “…performed in numerous cultural groups, are also more saturated with communal meaning than with agentic meaning (Ybarra et al., 2008; Study 1); and communal trait words are more similar across languages than agentic trait words (Abele et al., 2008; for English, French, German, Italian, and Polish).”
Stereotypes About Gender and Science (2016, methodology): “We presented participants with definitions of agency and communion that have been used in previous research involving categorizing traits as agentic or communal (see Abele et al., 2008).”
Investigating User Perception of Gender Bias in Image Search: The Role of Sexism (2018, background): “This theory is widely accepted by researchers of person perception [1] and the two dimensions appear to be culturally universal [2].”
The socio-emotional basis of human interaction and communication: How we construct our social world (2013, methodology): “Kiesler, 1983; Wiggins, Trapnell & Phillips, 1988), now often using the dimension names communion and agency (Abele et al., 2008; Wiggins, 1991).”
Effects of Gender Stereotypes on Trust and Likability in Spoken Human-Robot Interaction (2018, methodology): “Otterbacher et al. (2017) investigated the strength and content of gender stereotypes in image search algorithms using a trait adjective list based on Abele et al. (2008).”