Ute Barbara 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. 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

2025

Sato, Sayaka; Gygax, Pascal M.; Gabriel, Ute Barbara; Oakhill, Jane; Escasain, Lucie. (2025) Does Inclusive Language Increase the Visibility of Women, or Does It Simply Decrease the Visibility of Men? A Missing Piece of the Inclusive Language Jigsaw. Collabra: Psychology
Academic article

2024

Kim, Jonathan Daniel; Gabriel, Ute Barbara; Gygax, Pascal; Siyonova-Chanturia, Anna. (2024) Stimulus Selection Based on Gender Ratios: Gender Ratios are Indicative of Both Stereotypical and Conceptual Gender. Psychological Reports
Academic article

2023

Kim, Jonathan Daniel; Öttl, Anton; Gygax, Pascal M.; Behne, Dawn Marie; Hyönä, Jukka; Gabriel, Ute Barbara. (2023) “The Authors” Make Me Think Equally of Women and Men: Exploring Mixed-Gender Representations in a Visual Categorisation Task. Open Psychology
Academic article
Gabriel, Ute Barbara; Gygax, Pascal. (2023) Dealing with Participant Variability in Experimental Linguistics. Routledge
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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; 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

2022

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
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

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

Journal publications

Sato, Sayaka; Gygax, Pascal M.; Gabriel, Ute Barbara; Oakhill, Jane; Escasain, Lucie. (2025) Does Inclusive Language Increase the Visibility of Women, or Does It Simply Decrease the Visibility of Men? A Missing Piece of the Inclusive Language Jigsaw. Collabra: Psychology
Academic article
Kim, Jonathan Daniel; Gabriel, Ute Barbara; Gygax, Pascal; Siyonova-Chanturia, Anna. (2024) Stimulus Selection Based on Gender Ratios: Gender Ratios are Indicative of Both Stereotypical and Conceptual Gender. Psychological Reports
Academic article
Kim, Jonathan Daniel; Öttl, Anton; Gygax, Pascal M.; Behne, Dawn Marie; Hyönä, Jukka; Gabriel, Ute Barbara. (2023) “The Authors” Make Me Think Equally of Women and Men: Exploring Mixed-Gender Representations in a Visual Categorisation Task. Open Psychology
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; 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
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

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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