Marie Gustafsson Sendén Professor

As a social psychologist my reserch areas focus gender, languge and gender equality (beyound the binary) at work.  For example, how gender diversity interventions influence potential candidates’ reactions to gender diversity interventions in personnel selection, or what types of gender diversity interventions that leads to the best working climate. (https://gversity-2020.eu/g-versity-project.html)

In language studies, I assess social psychology phenomema by linguistic behaviour. I have used personal pronouns to study processes like self- and group serving biases as well as gender stereotypes. In current research projects, we investigate how a gender-neutral pronoun (hen) influence gender perceptions, identities and stereotypes (www.genderfair.se). I have developed an experimental task to test how people spontaneously use pronouns which has been used successfully both to assess self- and group serving biases as well as gender stereotyping.