Merritt R D, Kok C J
Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, USA.
J Pers Assess. 1997 Feb;68(1):211-4. doi: 10.1207/s15327752jpa6801_17.
Researchers in the language and social-cognitive fields have suggested that social mores and the use of masculine generic grammatical terms such as he and man have resulted in a people = male bias. This information processing bias causes most people to attribute male gender to a gender-unspecified person. Male gender appears to be prototypic of the person construct or category. These research findings have implications for the interpretation of the Draw-A-Person Test (Machover, 1949).
