{"pk":29381,"title":"Gender convergence in the expressions of love: A computational analysis of lyrics","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Love is a central theme in modern music, but do women andmen differ in their expressions of love? Results from empiri-cal studies on gender differences in love attitudes have evolvedfrom showing consistent differences to more similarities overtime and witnessed gender convergence in relationship expec-tations, housework responsibilities, and sexual attitudes. Inde-pendently, pop culture studies have shown how music can beused as a contextual artifact whose lyrics can reflect a culture’schanging psychological processes and ideologies. We combinethese two research areas to explore whether the gender con-vergence reported in psychological studies is mirrored in lovesongs. Using a corpus of lyrics and song metadata from 1960to 2009, we present a computational analysis of the lexical dis-tribution of lyrics across genre, gender and time. We show thatlove songs between vocalists who are men vs. women havebecome significantly more similar in their lyrical expressionsof love.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"culture and cognition; love; gender; lyrics; com-putational analysis"}],"section":"Gender and Individuals","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/40x424kj","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Lana","middle_name":"El","last_name":"Sanyoura","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Toronto","department":""},{"first_name":"Yang","middle_name":"","last_name":"Xu","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Toronto","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29381/galley/19242/download/"}]}