TY  - BOOK
AU  - Celse,Jérémy
AU  -  Grolleau,Gilles
AU  -  Max,Sylvain
TI  - Does the grammatical gender of the article preceding “Covid-19” affect how seriously it is perceived? The impact of the grammatical gender assigned to Covid-19 on how the virus is perceived and on the protective measures taken to avoid contracting it
PY  - 2022///.
							
N1  - 31
N2  - At first glance, debates about the gender of the definite article that should precede the term Covid-19 seem to be more about grammatical and linguistic considerations. Nevertheless, following recent work (Farrow et al. 2018) inviting a closer look at words as levers for influencing human perceptions and behaviors, we conducted an experimental test in France regarding whether the choice of the article preceding the term “Covid-19” could have contributed to more effective public policies. The results show that this seemingly innocuous choice is not innocuous at all, and suggest that, in the context of a strategy to combat the spread of the virus, the masculine article might have been more suitable
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-d-economie-politique-2022-4-page-679?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -