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Ute Barbara Gabriel

Ute Barbara Gabriel

Professor (Social Psychology)
Department of Psychology
Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences

ute.gabriel@ntnu.no
+4773591778 Bygg 12, 12.509, Dragvoll
ResearchGate Google Scholar ORCID 0000-0001-6360-4969 Research Group: SCaLa
About Research Publications

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. She is a member of the editorial board of Tidsskrift for Norsk psykologforening and Social Psychology Section Editor of Open Psychology.

Research

Do small words make a difference? Investigating the effects of gender-neutral pronouns on mental gender representations and perceptions of text quality in Dutch, French and Norwegian

This project aims at conducting a series of experimental studies in three languages in which gender-neutral 3rd person pronouns have recently been introduced, namely Dutch, French and Norwegian.

Publications

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2023

  • Gabriel, Ute Barbara; Kim, Jonathan Daniel; Öttl, Anton; Gygax, Pascal; Cui, Lei; Hyönä, Jukka. (2023) Norms on the Gender Perception of Role Nouns: Gender Ratio Data for Chinese, Finnish, and Russian. Journal of Open Psychology Data
    Academic article
  • Öttl, Anton; Kim, Jonathan Daniel; Behne, Dawn Marie; Gygax, Pascal M.; Hyönä, Jukka; Gabriel, Ute Barbara. (2023) Exploring the comparative adequacy of a unimanual and a bimanual stimulus-response setup for use with three-alternative choice response time tasks. PLOS ONE
    Academic article
  • Gabriel, Ute Barbara; Gygax, Pascal. (2023) Dealing with Participant Variability in Experimental Linguistics. Routledge
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2022

  • 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
  • Pittet, Mégane; Gygax, Pascal; Gabriel, Ute; Oakhill, Jane. (2022) Vocational aspirations and gender: Fighting the normative impact of language and stereotypes. Melusina Press
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2021

  • Gygax, Pascal M.; Zufferey, Sandrine; Gabriel, Ute. (2021) Le cerveau pense-t-il au masculin ? - Cerveau, langage et représentations sexistes. Le Robert
    Popular scientific book

2020

  • 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 in business/trade/industry journal

2019

  • 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
    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
  • 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
    Academic article

2018

  • Gabriel, Ute; Gygax, Pascal M.; Kuhn, Elisabeth Angela. (2018) Neutralising linguistic sexism: Promising but cumbersome?. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
    Academic literature review

Journal publications

  • Gabriel, Ute Barbara; Kim, Jonathan Daniel; Öttl, Anton; Gygax, Pascal; Cui, Lei; Hyönä, Jukka. (2023) Norms on the Gender Perception of Role Nouns: Gender Ratio Data for Chinese, Finnish, and Russian. Journal of Open Psychology Data
    Academic article
  • Öttl, Anton; Kim, Jonathan Daniel; Behne, Dawn Marie; Gygax, Pascal M.; Hyönä, Jukka; Gabriel, Ute Barbara. (2023) Exploring the comparative adequacy of a unimanual and a bimanual stimulus-response setup for use with three-alternative choice response time tasks. PLOS ONE
    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.; 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 in business/trade/industry journal
  • 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
    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
  • 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
    Academic article
  • Gabriel, Ute; Gygax, Pascal M.; Kuhn, Elisabeth Angela. (2018) Neutralising linguistic sexism: Promising but cumbersome?. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
    Academic literature review

Books

  • Gygax, Pascal M.; Zufferey, Sandrine; Gabriel, Ute. (2021) Le cerveau pense-t-il au masculin ? - Cerveau, langage et représentations sexistes. Le Robert
    Popular scientific book

Part of book/report

  • Gabriel, Ute Barbara; Gygax, Pascal. (2023) Dealing with Participant Variability in Experimental Linguistics. Routledge
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Pittet, Mégane; Gygax, Pascal; Gabriel, Ute; Oakhill, Jane. (2022) Vocational aspirations and gender: Fighting the normative impact of language and stereotypes. Melusina Press
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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