{"pk":28068,"title":"Language use shapes cultural norms: Large scale evidence from gender","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Cultural norms vary dramatically across social groups. Herewe use large scale data to examine the extent to which languageplays a role in shaping one such norm—the gender norm to as-sociate men with careers and women with family. We measurecross-cultural variability in this gender bias using previously-collected estimates from the Implicit Association Task (IAT; N= 663,709). We then try to predict bias variability by the waythat gender is encoded in language semantics and grammar.We quantify gender bias in semantics using word-embeddingmodels trained on different languages. Our data suggest thatthe linguistic encoding of gender predicts the degree of speak-ers’ gender bias in the IAT, pointing to a causal role for lan-guage in shaping gender norms.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Cultural Norms"},{"word":"IAT"},{"word":"gender"},{"word":"LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5v32f76n","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Molly","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lewis","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Wisconsin-Madison","department":""},{"first_name":"Gary","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lupyan","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Wisconsin-Madison","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28068/galley/17707/download/"}]}