Pascal Mark Gygax
Titular professor
pascal.gygax@unifr.ch
+41 26 300 7640
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4151-8255
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Senior Researcher,
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.