GENDER SCHEMATIC PARAPRAXES IN THE ARTICULATED THOUGHTS OF EX-SMOKERS

In: Social behavior and personality: an international journal, Volume 18, Issue 2, p. 261-266

Abstract

The Articulated Thoughts during Simulated Situations (ATSS) para digm for cognitive assessment may be useful for identifying gender schematic information processing. In a study of smoking relapse, several ex-smokers articulated thoughts indicating that they mistook the gender of audiotaped
actors whose roles violated sex role stereotypes. The same speakers were never misidentified when portraying more traditional roles. Discussion focused on (a) the possible utility of this finding for research on Gender Schema Theory, and (b) the value of open-ended cognitive assessment methods
such as ATSS for enhancing the likelihood of serendipitous findings.