BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID: 1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-TIMEZONE: America/Los_Angeles DTSTAMP: 20260531T131805 BEGIN:VEVENT UID: info@vconferenceonline.com SUMMARY:Social Psychology Papers I: Gender PRIORITY:0 CATEGORIES:SESSION CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART:20200617T110000 DTEND:20200617T122000 URL: https://event.vconferenceonline.com DESCRIPTION:CHAIR: PHYLLIS ANASTASIO

11:00am - 11:15am
A UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE ON THE BECHDEL TEST
AMELIA MARTINIE, ALEXANDRYA POPE (SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY)
The Bechdel test measures whether two female characters in a movie talk about something other than a man. However, this test is inherently limited, since it does not measure the content of the individual conversations. In this rethought Bechdel test, conversations between men were coded for their stereotypically masculine content when women are present or absent. Overall men were found to speak significantly more stereotypically than non-stereotypically, but this effect disappeared when women were present.

11:20am - 11:35am
GENDER DIFFERENCES IN PERCEPTIONS OF SAME-SEX AND OPPOSITE-SEX INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
ERIC FRAZIER, KAYLA BARILLAS, EDWARD GORSKI, EVAN BASTING, ELIZABETH GONCY (CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY)
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a growing concern in today's society. Prior research mainly focuses on IPV within heterosexual couples, despite evidence of IPV among same-sex couples. The purpose of this study is to examine college students’ perceptions of IPV in both heterosexual and same-sex couples. We hypothesize IPV will be evaluated as less severe in same-sex couples compared to heterosexual couples. Results and implications will be discussed.

11:40am - 11:55am
“MEN AND WOMEN” OR “WOMEN AND MEN?” TRENDS IN PRONOUN ORDER
PHYLLIS ANASTASIO, AMELIA MARTINIE, ZOE MAAS, DAVID SWEENEY, CAMILLE VASCONCELLOS (SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY)
Phrases in which male nouns/pronouns precede their female counterparts are far more common than female-first phrases. Using Google NGram, we examined the ratio of six male-first/female-first phrases appearing in books since 1900. Strong negative correlations between year and male/female ratios were found for five phrases, indicating the relative usage of female-first phrases increased over time. However, the trend from 1990-2008 was for female-first pronouns to increase until 2002, after which their usage declined. LOCATION: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR