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Ning Zhu; Ruth Filik – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
We investigated the effect of culture and social status on sarcasm interpretation. Two hundred U.K. participants and 200 Chinese participants read scenarios in which the final comment could be either literal or sarcastic criticism and the speaker had equal, higher, or lower social status compared to the recipient. Comments were rated on degree of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Influences, Social Status, Negative Attitudes
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Barthelemy, Ramón S.; McCormick, Melinda; Henderson, Charles – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
Sexism occurs when men are believed to be superior to women, and is thought to be one of the reasons for women's underrepresentation in physics and astronomy. The issue of sexism in physics and astronomy has not been thoroughly explored in the physics education literature and there is currently no clear language for discussing sexism in the field.…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Disproportionate Representation, Females, Physics