Implications of the people = male theory for the interpretation of the Draw-A-Person Test.
Researchers in the language and social-cognitive fields have suggested that social mores and the use of masculine generic grammatical terms such as he and man have resulted in a people = male bias. This information processing bias causes most people to attribute male gender to a gender-unspecified person. Male gender appears to be prototypic of the person construct or category. These research findings have implications for the interpretation of the Draw-A-Person Test (Machover, 1949).
Merritt
R D
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Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, USA.
Kok
C J
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D001154:Art; D015982:Bias; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011287:Prejudice; D011386:Projective Techniques; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012660:Semantics