Previous studies have suggested that personality assessments can be influenced by the language people speak. Therefore, gendered ways of thinking, feeling and behaving may be associated with gendered structures encoded in different languages. Here, we study the association between gender differences in personality traits as measured by the IPIP-NEO (n = 755,307; representing 48 languages from 122 countries, with English being the language of assessment and therefore held constant) and the genderedness of languages as rated by experts, estimated by word embedding models on large-scale text corpora from movie subtitles and Wikipedia, and rated by large language models such as ChatGPT, Gemini and DeepSeek. Consistent across all measures of language genderedness, more gendered languages were associated with stronger gender differences in personality traits compared to less gendered languages (r = 0.51 to 0.59), suggesting that language might influence people’s self-concept in terms of their gender.

Authors:
Roxana Hofmann, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
René Mõttus, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

About the Presenter(s)
Roxana Hofmann is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, UK. Her primary research interests include personality and urban psychology with a special focus on gender.

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