Ute Gabriel
About
Ute Gabriel holds a doctorate in psychology from Technische Universität Berlin (Germany; graduated in 1998), and a habilitation degree from Universität Bern (Switzerland; graduated in 2005). In her career, she held research positions at Universität Bonn (Germany; 1993-1995) and at Kriminologisches Forschungsinstitutt Hannover (Germany; 1995-1998) before taking a position as lecturer, and later senior lecturer, at Universität Bern (Switzerland; 1998-2006). She joined NTNU in 2006 as a professor in the Department of Psychology. She was Deputy Head of Department from 2010 to 2013, and Head of Department from 2017 until December 2021.
Her research foci have been in social psychology, and in psychology and law. She has served as Guest Editor for the Swiss Journal of Psychology, and as Associate Editor for the European Journal of Social Psychology. She has received grants from the Swiss National Foundation, the EU’s 7th Framework Programme (Marie Curie ITN), and the Norwegian Research Council (FriPro), among others.
Competencies
Publications
2023
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Gabriel, Ute Barbara;
Kim, Jonathan Daniel;
Öttl, Anton;
Gygax, Pascal;
Cui, Lei;
Hyönä, Jukka;
Nagel, Olga.
(2023)
Norms on the Gender Perception of Role Nouns: Gender Ratio Data for Chinese, Finnish, and Russian.
Journal of Open Psychology Data.
Academic article
2022
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Kim, Jonathan;
Angst, Sarah;
Gygax, Pascal;
Gabriel, Ute;
Zufferey, Sandrine.
(2022)
The masculine bias in fully gendered languages and ways to avoid it: A study on gender neutral forms in Québec and Swiss French.
Journal of French Language Studies.
Academic article
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Pittet, Mégane;
Gygax, Pascal;
Gabriel, Ute;
Oakhill, Jane.
(2022)
Vocational aspirations and gender: Fighting the normative impact of language and stereotypes.
Gender and Education in Luxembourg and Beyond. Local Challenges and New Perspectives.
Academic chapter/article
2021
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Gygax, Pascal M.;
Zufferey, Sandrine;
Gabriel, Ute.
(2021)
Le cerveau pense-t-il au masculin ? - Cerveau, langage et représentations sexistes.
2021. ISBN 9782321016892.
Popularized science book
2020
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Gygax, Pascal M.;
Sato, Sayaka;
Øttl, Anton;
Gabriel, Ute.
(2020)
The masculine form in grammatically gendered languages and its multiple interpretations: a challenge for our cognitive system.
Language Sciences.
Article
2019
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Gygax, Pascal M.;
Schoenhals, Lucie;
Levy, Arik;
Luethold, Patrick;
Gabriel, Ute.
(2019)
Exploring the onset of a male-biased interpretation of masculine generics among French speaking kindergarten children.
Frontiers in Psychology.
volum 10.
Academic article
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Gygax, Pascal;
Gabriel, Ute;
Zufferey, Sandrine.
(2019)
Le masculin et ses multiples sens : Un problème pour notre cerveau… et notre société.
Savoirs En Prisme (SEP).
Academic article
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Kim, Jonathan D.;
Gabriel, Ute;
Gygax, Pascal.
(2019)
Testing the effectiveness of the Internet-based instrument PsyToolkit: A comparison between web-based (PsyToolkit) and lab-based (E-Prime 3.0) measurements of response choice and response time in a complex psycholinguistic task.
PLOS ONE.
volum 14 (9).
Academic article
2018
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Gabriel, Ute;
Gygax, Pascal M.;
Kuhn, Elisabeth Angela.
(2018)
Neutralising linguistic sexism: Promising but cumbersome?.
Group Processes & Intergroup Relations.
volum 21 (5).
Scientific translation/review
Scientific articles
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Gabriel, Ute Barbara;
Kim, Jonathan Daniel;
Öttl, Anton;
Gygax, Pascal;
Cui, Lei;
Hyönä, Jukka;
Nagel, Olga.
(2023)
Norms on the Gender Perception of Role Nouns: Gender Ratio Data for Chinese, Finnish, and Russian.
Journal of Open Psychology Data.
Academic article
-
Kim, Jonathan;
Angst, Sarah;
Gygax, Pascal;
Gabriel, Ute;
Zufferey, Sandrine.
(2022)
The masculine bias in fully gendered languages and ways to avoid it: A study on gender neutral forms in Québec and Swiss French.
Journal of French Language Studies.
Academic article
-
Gygax, Pascal M.;
Schoenhals, Lucie;
Levy, Arik;
Luethold, Patrick;
Gabriel, Ute.
(2019)
Exploring the onset of a male-biased interpretation of masculine generics among French speaking kindergarten children.
Frontiers in Psychology.
volum 10.
Academic article
-
Gygax, Pascal;
Gabriel, Ute;
Zufferey, Sandrine.
(2019)
Le masculin et ses multiples sens : Un problème pour notre cerveau… et notre société.
Savoirs En Prisme (SEP).
Academic article
-
Kim, Jonathan D.;
Gabriel, Ute;
Gygax, Pascal.
(2019)
Testing the effectiveness of the Internet-based instrument PsyToolkit: A comparison between web-based (PsyToolkit) and lab-based (E-Prime 3.0) measurements of response choice and response time in a complex psycholinguistic task.
PLOS ONE.
volum 14 (9).
Academic article
Journal publications
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Gygax, Pascal M.;
Sato, Sayaka;
Øttl, Anton;
Gabriel, Ute.
(2020)
The masculine form in grammatically gendered languages and its multiple interpretations: a challenge for our cognitive system.
Language Sciences.
Article
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Gabriel, Ute;
Gygax, Pascal M.;
Kuhn, Elisabeth Angela.
(2018)
Neutralising linguistic sexism: Promising but cumbersome?.
Group Processes & Intergroup Relations.
volum 21 (5).
Scientific translation/review
Books
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Gygax, Pascal M.;
Zufferey, Sandrine;
Gabriel, Ute.
(2021)
Le cerveau pense-t-il au masculin ? - Cerveau, langage et représentations sexistes.
2021. ISBN 9782321016892.
Popularized science book
Part of book/report
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Pittet, Mégane;
Gygax, Pascal;
Gabriel, Ute;
Oakhill, Jane.
(2022)
Vocational aspirations and gender: Fighting the normative impact of language and stereotypes.
Gender and Education in Luxembourg and Beyond. Local Challenges and New Perspectives.
Academic chapter/article
Media
2022
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LectureKim, Jonathan; Gabriel, Ute; Gygax, Pascal M.. (2022) Language structures and gender stereotyped perception: the effect of differences in the level of grammatical gender between fully, semi-, and non-gendered languages. Out of the Norm!? Current perspectives on language and gender . Zapf, Chagas, & Prof.Dr. Jansen; FAU Institut für Romanistik; Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg. 2022-10-05 - 2022-10-07.
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LectureKim, Jonathan; Öttl, Anton; Gygax, Pascal M.; Behne, Dawn Marie; Hyönä, Jukka; Gabriel, Ute. (2022) Gender priming non-linguistic stimuli: the effect of feminine, masculine, and mixed gender primes on the perception of male, female and gender-mixed face primes. 2022 ESCON Transfer of Knowledge Conference . European Social Cognition Network; University of Milano-Bicocca. 2022-08-29 - 2022-08-31.
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LectureKim, Jonathan; Öttl, Anton; Gygax, Pascal M.; Behne, Dawn Marie; Hyönä, Jukka; Gabriel, Ute. (2022) Gender priming non-linguistic stimuli: the effect of word and sentence primes on the perception of male, female, and gender-mixed face pairs. KogWis 2022 - Understanding Minds (Biannual conference of the German Cognitive Science Society) . The German Cognitive Science Society; University of Freiburg. 2022-09-05 - 2022-09-07.
2019
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PosterÖttl, Anton; Behne, Dawn Marie; Gygax, Pascal; Hyönä, Jukka; Gabriel, Ute. (2019) Stimulus-Response Compatibility: The Role of Category Structure. International Convention of Psychological Science . Association for Psychological Science; Paris. 2019-03-07 - 2019-03-09.
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Academic lectureÖttl, Anton; Behne, Dawn Marie; Gygax, Pascal; Hyönä, Jukka; Gabriel, Ute. (2019) Word-to-image priming of gender information: Beyond binary response designs. Tagung Experimentell arbeitender Psychologen . London Metropolitan University; London. 2019-04-15 - 2019-04-17.
2018
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Academic lectureKim, Jonathan D.; Gabriel, Ute. (2018) PsyToolkit: Testing the replicability of web-based results in a laboratory setting. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen . Philipps Universität; Marburg. 2018-03-11 - 2018-03-14.
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Academic lectureÖttl, Anton; Behne, Dawn Marie; Aune, Martine; Gygax, Pascal; Gabriel, Ute. (2018) Structural similarities between response categories and response layout facilitate processing of overlapping categories. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen . Philipps Universität; Marburg. 2018-03-11 - 2018-03-14.
2017
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Academic lectureBehne, Dawn Marie; Gabriel, Ute. (2017) Influence of sound environment on school tasks. Visit at Trondheim International School ; Trondheim. 2017-06-15.
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Academic lectureGabriel, Ute. (2017) Social-cognitive correlates of cross-linguistic variation in genderisation. International Scientific Workshop on Experimental Studies of Language and Speech. Bilingualism and Multilingualism (E-SoLaS) . Tomsk State University; Tomsk. 2017-10-09 - 2017-10-10.
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Academic lectureKim, Jonathan D.; Gabriel, Ute. (2017) Possible effects of cross-linguistic variations in level of genderisation on social perception. 1st International Symposium on Intergroup Communication ; 2017-06-21 - 2017-06-23.
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Academic lectureÖttl, Anton; Gabriel, Ute; Behne, Dawn Marie; Gygax, Pascal M.; Hyõnã, Jukka. (2017) Are gender biases driven by language? Sentence to image priming in French, Norwegian and Finnish. 1st International Symposium on Intergroup Communication ; 2017-06-21 - 2017-06-23.
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Academic lectureÖttl, Anton; Gabriel, Ute; Behne, Dawn Marie; Gygax, Pascal; Hyönä, Jukka. (2017) Grammaticalization of gender and face categorization: Sentence to image priming in French, Norwegian and Finnish. ESCON - Transfer of Knowledge Conference ; Gdansk. 2017-08-23 - 2017-08-27.
2016
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LectureGabriel, Ute Barbara. (2016) Inference of Gender in Language Comprehension. Experimental Studies of Language and Speech: Traditions and Innovations (E-SoLaS) . Tomsk State University; Tomsk. 2016-03-17 - 2016-03-19.
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LectureGabriel, Ute Barbara. (2016) Text comprehension and production: A social psychological perspective. Eye-tracking Lab research meeting . University of Turku; Turku. 2016-11-25 - 2016-11-25.
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Popular scientific lectureGabriel, Ute Barbara; Aune, Martine. (2016) Skoleelever på lab-besøk: Språk, Kognisjon og Kjønn. Lab-besøk med foredrag ; 2016-10-24 - 2016-10-24.
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Academic lectureÖttl, Anton; Behne, Dawn Marie; Gygax, Pascal; Gabriel, Ute Barbara. (2016) Measuring response times using three response alternatives in a decision task. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP) 2016 . Universität Heidelberg; Heidelberg. 2016-03-21 - 2016-03-23.
2015
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LectureGabriel, Ute; Behne, Dawn Marie; Gygax, Pascal M.. (2015) Listening vs. Reading Comprehension in Norwegian: The mental representation of gender. Språkdagen . Institutt for språk og litteratur - NTNU; 2015-02-06 - 2015-02-06.
2014
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LectureGabriel, Ute; Swart, Hermann. (2014) Intergroup relations and language development: Norwegian students’ friendships with non-Scandinavian students. NTNU’s Diversity Conference . NTNU; 2014-09-16 - 2014-09-17.
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PosterKuhn, Elisabeth Angela; Koeser, Sara; Torsdottir, Ane Eir; Gabriel, Ute. (2014) Lexically gender-marked role nouns in Norwegian: Effect of prevalent and presented form on readers' recall. 17th General Meeting of European Association of Social Psychology ; Amsterdam. 2014-07-08 - 2014-07-12.
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PosterLilla, Nanine; Gabriel, Ute; Zander, Lysann; Hannover, Bettina. (2014) Er jeg en annen than I am? Bilingual students’ language dependent access of cognitive and affective self-knowledge. NTNU Språkdagen ; Trondheim. 2014-02-07.
2013
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PosterKuhn, Elisabeth; Koeser, Sara; Torsdottir, Ane Eir; Gabriel, Ute. (2013) Effect of gender-marked role nouns on Norwegian readers' recall. Final Conference of the Initial Training Network on Language, Cognition and Gender (ITN LCG) . University of Bern; Bern. 2013-06-13 - 2013-06-17.
2012
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Popular scientific lectureGabriel, Ute. (2012) Can a girl become a man? A fireman maybe? About the inference of gender in reading comprehension. Academic Program of the IBZ Berlin . http://www.ibz-berlin.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=a; Berlin. 2012-03-08 - 2012-03-08.
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Academic lectureGabriel, Ute; Lilla, Nanine; Hannover, Bettina. (2012) Erstsprachen-Selbst und Zweitsprachen-Selbst? Die kontextgebundene Verfügbarkeit sprachlichen Selbstwissens bei Schülerinnen und Schülern mit Migrationshintergrund [First-language self and second-language self? Immigrant students’ contextbound accessibility of language dependent selfknowledge]. 48th Congress of the German Psychological Assiciation (DGPs) ; 2012-09-23 - 2012-09-27.
2011
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Academic lectureKuhn, Elisabeth; Gabriel, Ute. (2011) Spontaneous versus instructed gender-fair language use - The role of language competence. 12th Congress of the Swiss Psychological Society . Swiss Psychological Society; Fribourg. 2011-09-12 - 2011-09-13.
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Academic lectureKuhn, Elisabeth; Gabriel, Ute. (2011) Spontaneous vs. instructed gender-fair language use: The role of language competence. 16th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology . European Association of Social Psychology, EASP; Stockholm. 2011-07-12 - 2011-07-16.
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PosterRuggieri, Sabrina; Bendixen, Mons; Gabriel, Ute; Alsaker, Francoise. D.. (2011) Cyberball: The impact of virtual social exclusion on early adolescents' well being. Is victimization a moderating factor?. 12th Congress of the Swiss Psychological Society ; 2011-09-12 - 2011-09-13.
2009
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Academic lectureBendixen, Mons; Gabriel, Ute. (2009) "The blow of a whip raises a welt, but the blow of the tongue crushes bones": On perceived insults of derogatory terms. The 11th National Conference on Social and Community Psychology . Psykologisk fakultet, Universitetet i Bergen; Bergen. 2009-11-12 - 2009-11-13.
2008
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Academic lectureGabriel, Ute; Tennfjord, Oddfrid Skorpe. (2008) Stereotypic Expectations as Explanation for Gender Differences in the Moral Judgment of Domestic Violence. XIII. Workshop Aggression 2008 ; Potsdam. 2008-11-07 - 2008-11-08.
2007
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PosterGabriel, Ute Barbara. (2007) Au-pairs are rarely male: Norms on the gender perception of role names across English, French and German. 17th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse . Society for Text and Discourse; Glasgow. 2007-07-08 - 2007-07-11.
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Academic lectureGabriel, Ute Barbara; Gygax, Pascal; Sarrasin, Oriane. (2007) Can societal language amendments change gender representation? The case of Norwegian. 9th Conference on Social and Community Psychology ; Trondheim. 2007-11-08 - 2007-11-09.