Pascal Mark Gygax
PD, PhD, MSc, BSc
pascal.gygax@unifr.ch
+41 26 300 7640
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4151-8255
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Lecturer,
Department of Psychology
RM 01 bu. C-4.109
Rue P.A. de Faucigny 2
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Lecturer,
Department of Psychology
RM 01 bu. C-4.109
Rue P.A. de Faucigny 2
1700 Fribourg
Biography
I am an experimental psycholinguist and cognitive psychologist interested in the way we go beyond text and/or discourse to form mental representations. I have been particularly interested in the way background knowledge and explicit elements interact to form what we actually retain from reading or discourse. Although I mainly work on gender, emotion and health-related inferences, I have also been very much interested in the way gender stereotypes creep into the way we see the world.
Beside my work at the University of Fribourg (as a head of the Psycholinguistics and Applied Social Psychology Group, with Pascal Wagner-Egger), I am also involved in different forms of communication for the public understanding of science. I regularly speak on radio, give workshops on gender-fair language, and explain to children in schools how their perception of gender has been very much impacted by social conventions.
Research and publications
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Publications
60 publications
“The Authors” Make Me Think Equally of Women and Men: Exploring Mixed-Gender Representations in a Visual Categorisation Task
Jonathan D. Kim, Anton Öttl, Pascal Gygax, Dawn M. Behne, Jukka Hyönä, Ute Gabriel, Open Psychology (2023) | Journal articleThe male bias can be attenuated in reading: on the resolution of anaphoric expressions following gender-fair forms in French
Julia Tibblin, Jonas Granfeldt, Joost van de Weijer, Pascal Gygax, Glossa Psycholinguistics (2023) | Journal articleDealing with participant variability in experimental linguistics
Ute Gabriel, Pascal Gygax (2023) | Book chapterIntroduction
Sandrine Zufferey, Pascal Gygax (2023) | Book chapterThe Routledge Handbook of Experimental Linguistics
Sandrine Zufferey, Pascal Gygax (2023) | BookPragmatic and syntactic constraints on French causal connectives: An evaluation of native and non-native speakers’ sensitivity
Mathis Wetzel, Ekaterina Tskhovrebova, Pascal M. Gygax, Sandrine Zufferey, Journal of Pragmatics (2023) | Journal articleThe masculine bias in fully gendered languages and ways to avoid it: A study on gender neutral forms in Québec and Swiss French
Jonathan Kim, Sarah Angst, Pascal Gygax, Ute Gabriel, Sandrine Zufferey, Journal of French Language Studies (2023) | Journal articleExploring the comparative adequacy of a unimanual and a bimanual stimulus-response setup for use with three-alternative choice response time tasks.
Öttl A and Kim JD and Behne DM and Gygax P and Hyönä J and Gabriel U, PloS one (2023) | Journal articleNorms on the Gender Perception of Role Nouns: Gender Ratio Data for Chinese, Finnish, and Russian
Ute Gabriel, Jonathan Kim, Anton Öttl, Pascal Gygax, Lei Cui, Jukka Hyönä, Olga Nagel, Journal of Open Psychology Data (2023) | Journal article