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"Mosuo participants showed a distinctive “person = me” pattern. Overall, the Mosuo imagined a person as either a man or a woman at chance; there was no evidence for bias to imagine a man by default"
Comparing against mainstream society samples (both previous lit and in a mainstream Chinese sample in this study), the researchers argue that "Representations of a generic person are initially self-anchored but are subsequently shaped by socialization within gendered social structures"
grimalkina@mastodon.social 3 weeks ago The researchers also note the difficulty of conducting this research (limiting it to an observational finding, and a smaller sample size than they would like), given the rareness of such cultures + the constraints of this one in particular. They also note language complexity like associations in Mosuo language between "mother" and "important" and call for work to validate in-language materials! Effect could be even bigger in-language. Super neat.