All papers can be downloaded on Anna’s Archive or Researchgate (some of them directly on this page)
2026
Vincent, C. B., Van Hoof, S., Gygax, P. M., Gabriel, U., & Decock, S. (2026). Comprehensibility and appreciation of two gender-neutral neopronouns in French: Iel and al. Discourse Processes, 0(0), 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2026.2715358
Sato, S., Pittet, M., Escasain, L., Gabriel, U., Oakhill, J., & Gygax, P. M. (2026). Can gender-fair language modify vocational representations? Assessing the impact of grammatical form and stereotypes on adolescents’ perceived warmth, perceived competence, and anticipated sense of belonging for different occupations. PLOS ONE, 21, e0354871. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0354871
Brodard, F., Gygax, P., Noël, I., Gonel, G., & Quartier, V. (2026). Exploring Teachers’ Representations, Self-Efficacy, and Support Strategies When Recognizing Gifted Children in the French-Speaking Part of Switzerland. Journal of Advanced Academics, 1932202X261456377. https://doi.org/10.1177/1932202X261456377
Verhaegen, H., Hoof, S. V., Herck, R. V., Gabriel, U., Gygax, P., & Decock, S. (2025). The effect of Dutch gender-neutral pronouns on perceived text quality: Generic reference in employee guidelines. Applied Psycholinguistics, 46, e30. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716425100167
Zufferey, S., Gabriel, U., & Gygax, P. (2026). Grammatical gender versus natural gender. In N. O. Schiller, T. Kupisch, N. O. Schiller, & T. Kupisch (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Classifiers. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191957215.003.0003
Tibblin, J., Gygax, P., van de Weijer, J., & Granfeldt, J. (2026). Recognized but harder to integrate: An eye-tracking study of French gender-fair forms during reading. In Press in Applied Psycholinguistics
2025
Jäggi, T., Gygax, P. M., Decock, S., Gabriel, U., Hoof, S. V., Verhaegen, H., & Vincent, C. (2025). Beyond She and He : A Framework for Studying the Cognitive, Psychological and Social Effects of Gender-Neutral Pronouns. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 0261927X251346193. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X251346193
Kim, J. D., Gygax, P., Gabriel, U., Gygax, P., & Gabriel, U. (2025). How Internet Habits Influence Social Cognitive Research : Theoretical and Methodological Considerations in the Era of Social Media. Journal of Perceptual Imaging, 8, 1‑12. https://doi.org/10.2352/J.Percept.Imaging.2025.8.000402
Sato, S., Gygax, P. M., Gabriel, U., Oakhill, J., & Escasain, L. (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, 11, 128470. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.128470
Kim, J. D., Gabriel, U., Gygax, P., & Siyanova-Chanturia, A. (2025). Language and stereotypes. In J. H. Grafman (Éd.), Encyclopedia of the Human Brain (Second Edition) (p. 820‑830). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-820480-1.00147-9
Escasain, L., Gygax, P. M., Sato, S., Gabriel, U., & Oakhill, J. (2025). Influencing Adolescents’ Gendered Aspirations for Nursing and Surgery. Open Psychology, 7. https://doi.org/10.1515/psych-2025-0006
Tskhovrebova, E., Wetzel, M., Gygax, P., & Zufferey, S. (2025). The role of training and exposure to print for the mastery of connectives in French. Applied Psycholinguistics, 46, e2. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716424000481
2024
Gygax, P., & Zufferey, S. (2024). Comprendre la recherche expérimentale sur le genre grammatical : Une réponse à de Saussure (2024). Langue française, 224, 125‑134.
Lombard, A., Huyghe, R., & Gygax, P. (2024). Morphological productivity and neological intuition. Glossa Psycholinguistics, 3. https://doi.org/10.5070/G60111291
Weber, L., Gygax, P., Schoenhals, L., & Fourrier, I. (in press). Écriture inclusive et dyslexie : enjeux, hypothèses et pistes de recherche. Approche Neuropsychologique des Apprentissages chez l’Enfant (ANAE), 188 vol 36, 75‑88
Kim, J. D., Gabriel, U., Gygax, P., & Siyanova-Chanturia, A. (2024). Stimulus Selection Based on Gender Ratios : Gender Ratios are Indicative of Both Stereotypical and Conceptual Gender. Psychological Reports, 00332941241253582. https://doi.org/10.1177/00332941241253582
2023
Wetzel, M., Zufferey, S., & Gygax, P. (2024). The role of complexity in the ability to notice incoherent uses of connectives for L2. Journal of Second Language Studies, 7, 44‑74. https://doi.org/10.1075/jsls.00025.wet
Tskhovrebova, E., Zufferey, S., & Gygax, P. (2023). Exploring the Sensitivity to Alternative Signals of Coherence Relations : The Case of French Speaking Teenagers. Dialogue & Discourse, 14, Article 2. https://doi.org/10.5210/dad.2023.202
Zufferey, S., & Gygax, P. (2023). The Routledge Handbook of Experimental Linguistics. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003392972
Liénardy, C., Tibblin, J., Gygax, P., & Simon, A.-C. (2023). Écriture inclusive, lisibilité textuelle et représentations mentales. Discours. Revue de linguistique, psycholinguistique et informatique. A journal of linguistics, psycholinguistics and computational linguistics, 33, Article 33. https://doi.org/10.4000/discours.12636
Gabriel, U. & Gygax, P. (2023). Dealing with participant variability in experimental linguistics. In Zufferey, S., & Gygax, P. (Eds). The Routledge Handbook of Experimental Linguistics. Routledge.
Sauteur, T., Gygax, P., Tibblin, J., Escasain, L., & Sato, S. (2023). « L’écriture inclusive, je ne connais pas très bien… mais je déteste ! ». GLAD!, 14, Article 14. https://doi.org/10.4000/glad.6400
Jäggi, T., Sato, S., & Gygax, P. M. (2023). Skin cancer risk assessment and the grammaticalization of the future : The role of epistemic modality when temporally framing health information. Language and Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.laheal.2023.07.001
Tibblin, J., Granfeldt, J., van de Weijer, J., & Gygax, P. (2023). The male bias can be attenuated in reading : On the resolution of anaphoric expressions following gender-fair forms in French. Glossa Psycholinguistics, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.5070/G60111267
Younis, R., de Oliveira Fernandes, D., Gygax, P., Koszowy, M., & Oswald, S. (2023). Rephrasing is not arguing, but it is still persuasive : An experimental approach to perlocutionary effects of rephrase. Journal of Pragmatics, 210, 12‑23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2023.03.010
Wetzel, M., Tskhovrebova, E., M., Gygax, P. & Zufferey, S. (2023). Pragmatic and syntactic constraints on French causal connectives: An evaluation of native and non-native speakers’ sensitivity. Journal of Pragmatics, 209, 89-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2023.03.001
Tibblin, J., Weijer, J. van de, Granfeldt, J., & Gygax, P. (2023). There are more women in joggeur·euses than in joggeurs : On the effects of gender-fair forms on perceived gender ratios in French role nouns. Journal of French Language Studies, 33, 28‑51. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959269522000217
Öttl, A., Kim, J., Behne, D., Gygax, P., Hyönä, J., Gabriel, U. (2023). Exploring the comparative adequacy of a unimanual and a bimanual stimulus-response setup for use with three-alternative choice response time tasks. PLOSOne, 18, e0281377. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281377
Gabriel, U., Kim, J., Öttl, A., Gygax, P., Cui, L., Hyönä, J., & Nagel, O. (2023). Norms on the Gender Perception of Role Nouns: Gender Ratio Data for Chinese, Finnish, and Russian. Journal of Open Psychology Data, 11(1), 2. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/jopd.73
2022
Coles, N. A., March, D. S., Marmolejo-Ramos, F., Larsen, J. T.,…Gygax, P.… Marozzi, M. (2022). A Multi-Lab Test of the Facial Feedback Hypothesis by The Many Smiles Collaboration. Nature Human Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01458-9
Tibblin, J., Van de Weijer, J., Granfeldt, J., & Gygax, P. (2022). There are more women in joggeur·euses than in joggeurs: On the effects of gender-fair forms on perceived gender ratios in French role nouns. Journal of French Language Studies, 1-24, First View. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959269522000217
Kim, J., Angst, S., Gygax, P., Gabriel, U., & Zufferey, S. (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, 1-26, First View. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S095926952200014X
Koszowy, M., Oswald, S., Budzynska, K., Konat, B. & Gygax, P. (2022). A Pragmatic Account of Rephrase in Argumentation: Linguistic and Cognitive Evidence. Informal Logic, 42, 49–82. https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v42i1.7212
Wetzel, M., Zufferey, S., & Gygax, P. (2022). How Robust Is Discourse Processing for Native Readers? The Role of Connectives and the Coherence Relations They Convey. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.822151
Jäggi, T., Sato, S., Gillioz, C., & Gygax, P. M. (2022). Is the future near or far depending on the verb tense markers used? An experimental investigation into the effects of the grammaticalization of the future. PLOS ONE, 17, e0262778. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262778
2021
Tskhovrebova, E., Zufferey, S., & Gygax, P. (2022). Individual Variations in the Mastery of Discourse Connectives from Teenage Years to Adulthood. Language Learning, 72, 412‑455. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12481
Lombard, A., Huyghe, R. & Gygax. P. (2021). Neological intuition in French: a Study of formal novelty and lexical regularity as predictors. Lingua, 254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2021.103055s
Wetzel, M., Zufferey, S., & Gygax, P. (2021). Do non-native and unfamiliar accents sound less credible? An examination of the processing fluency hypothesis. The Journal in Support for the Null Hypothesis, 17, 61-70.
Gygax, P., Sato, S., Oetl, A. & Gabriel, U. (2021). The masculine form and its multiple interpretations: a challenge for our cognitive system. Language Sciences, 83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2020.101328
Simond, A., Molin, A., Sato, S., Jaeggi, T., Gygax, P, & Meuwly, N. (2021). Linking political and feminist ideology with openness towards non-binary gender: The development and initial validation of a scale to measure subjective Openness towards Non-Binary Gender (ONBG). Journal of Gender Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2020.1844644 preprint here
2020
Sato, S., Gygax, P., Randall, J., & Schmidt-Mast, M. (2020). The leaky pipeline in research grant peer review and funding decisions: Challenges and future directions. Higher Education. doi: 10.1007/s10734-020-00626-y
Wetzel, M., Zufferey, S., & Gygax, P. (2020). Second language acquisition and the mastery of discourse connectives: assessing the factors that hinder L2-learners from mastering French connectives. Languages, 5, 35. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages5030035
Jäggi, T., Sato, S., Gillioz, C., & Gygax, P. M. (2020). An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Psychological Impact of Different Grammaticalizations of the Future. Journal of Cognition, 3, 1-13. http://doi.org/10.5334/joc.100
Bylund, E., Gygax, P., Samuel, S., & Athanasopoulos, P. (2020). Back to the future? The role of temporal focus for mapping time onto space. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73, 174‑182. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021819867624
2019
Gygax, P., Gabriel, U. & Zufferey, S. (2019). Le masculin et ses multiples sens : Un problème pour notre cerveau… et notre société. Savoirs en Prisme, 10, e-publication
Gygax, P., Thomas C., Didierjean, A., & Kuhn, G. (2019). Are women perceived as worse magicians than men? Gender bias when evaluating magic tricks. Social Psychological Bulletin, 14, Article e33574. doi: 10.32872/spb.v14i3.33574
Zufferey, S. & Gygax, P. (2019). Do teenagers know how to use connectives from the written mode? Lingua, doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2019.102779
Kim, J. D., Gygax, P. & Gabriel, U. (2019). Testing the effectiveness of the Internet-based instrument PsyToolkit: a comparison between web-based (PsyToolkit) and lab-based (E-Prime 3.0) measurements of response choice and response time in a complex psycholinguistic task. PLOS ONE 14 : e0221802. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0221802
Gygax, P. M., Elmiger, D., Zufferey, S., Garnham, A., Sczesny, S., von Stockhausen, L., Braun, F., & Oakhill, J. (2019). A Language Index of Grammatical Gender dimensions for those interested in the impact of grammatical gender on the way we perceive women and men. Frontiers in Psychology. 10:1604. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01604
Zufferey, S., & Gygax, P. (2019). “Roger broke his tooth. However, he went to the dentist”: Why some readers struggle to evaluate wrong (and right) uses of connectives. Discourse Processes, First View. doi: 10.1080/0163853X.2019.1607446
Gygax P.M., Schoenhals L., Lévy A., Luethold P. and Gabriel U. (2019). Exploring the Onset of a Male-Biased Interpretation of Masculine Generics Among French Speaking Kindergarten Children. Frontiers in Psychology. 10:1225. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01225
Monaco, E., Jost, L. B., Gygax, P. M., & Annoni, J.-M. (2019). Embodied Semantics in a Second Language: Critical Review and Clinical Implications. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 13. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2019.00110
2018
Gabriel, U., Gygax, P. & Kuhn, E. (2018). Neutralising linguistic sexism: Promising but cumbersome? Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 21, 844-858. doi: 10.1177/1368430218771742.
Wagner-Egger, P., & Gygax, P. (2018). Diana was not involved in the 9/11 terrorist attacks! Or was she? The boomerang effects of newspaper headline. Swiss Journal of Psychology, 77, 15-22.
2017
Zufferey, S. & Gygax, P. (2017). Processing explicit and implicit discourse relations in a second language. Frontiers in Psychology, 8:1198. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01198
Gabriel, U., Behne, D., & Gygax, P. (2017). Speech vs. reading comprehension: An explorative study of gender representations in Norwegian. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 29, 795-808. doi: 10.1080/20445911.2017.1326923
Sato, Oetl, Gabriel & Gygax (2017). Assessing the impact of gender grammaticization on thought: A psychological and psycholinguistic perspective. Osnabrücker Beiträge zur Sprachtheorie (OBST), 90.
Gillioz, C., & Gygax, P. (2017). The specificity of emotion inferences as a function of emotional contextual support. Discourse Processes, 54, 1-8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2015.1095597
2016
Parzuchowski, M, Bocian, K, Gygax, P. (2016). Sizing up objects: the effect of diminutive forms on mood, value and size judgments. Frontiers in Psychology – Language Sciences, 7:1452. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01452
Gabriel, U., & Gygax, P. (2016). Gender and linguistic sexism. In H. Giles & A. Maas (Eds). Advances in intergroup Communication. CITY: Peter Lang Publishers.
Gygax, P. M., Garnham, A., & Doehren, S. (2016). What Do True Gender Ratios and Stereotype Norms Really Tell Us? Frontiers in Psychology – Cognition, 1036. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01036
Sato, S., Gygax, P., & Gabriel, U. (2016). Gauging the impact of gender grammaticization in different languages: Application of a linguistic-visual paradigm. Frontiers in Psychology – Language Sciences, 7, 140.
Sato, S., Gabriel, U., & Gygax, P. (2016). Changing male-dominant representations in German: A study on nominalized adjectives and participles. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, First View. doi: 10.1177/0261927X15625442.
2015
Lévy, A., Gygax, P., & Gabriel, U. & Zesiger, P. (2015). Gender representation in language: The onset of grammar-stereotype interplay in toddlerhood. Journal of Child Language, First View. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S030500091500063X.
Vervecken, D., Gygax, P., Gabriel, U., Guillod, M., Hannover, B. (2015). Warm businessmen, cold housewives? Effects of gender-fair language on adolescents’ perceptions of occupations. Frontiers in Psychology – Cognition. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01437
Zufferey, S. & Gygax, P. (2015). The role of perspective shifts for the communication and processing of discourse relations. Discourse Processes. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2015.1062839.
Garnham, A., Doehren, S. D., & Gygax, P. M. (2015). True gender ratios and stereotype rating norms. Frontiers in Psychology – Cognition, 6 (1023). http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01023
Zimmermann, R., & Gygax, P. (2015). Women’s endorsement of sexist beliefs directed towards the self and towards other women in general. In L. Faniko., F. Lorenzi-Cioldi, O. Sarrasin, & E. Mayor (Eds). Men and women in social hierarchies. Bern: Peter Lang Publishers
Gygax, P., & Gillioz, C. (2015). Emotion inferences during reading: Going beyond the tip of the iceberg. In E.J. O’Brien, A.E., Cook,& R.F. Lorch (Eds). Inferences during reading. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Thomas C., Didierjean, A., Maquestiaux, F., and Gygax, P. (2015). Does Magic Offer a Cryptozoology Ground for Psychology. Review of General Psychology, 19, 117-128.
Wyrobková, A, & Gygax, P. (2015). Human and Man side by side, Woman trapped in a different reality: Word associations in Czech. Journal of Czechoslovac Psychology, 59, 44-56.
2014
Misersky, J., Gygax, P., Canal, P., Gabriel, U., Garnham, A., Braun, F., Chiarini, T., Englund, K., Hanulikova, A., Öttl, A., Valdrova, J., Von Stockhausen, L., & Sczesny, S. (2014). Beauticians are rarely male: Norms on the gender perception of role nouns in Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, and Slovak. Behavior Research Methods, 46, 841-871. doi: 10.3758/s13428-013-0409-z
Lévy, A., Gygax, P., & Gabriel, U., (2014). Fostering the generic interpretation of grammatically masculine forms: When my aunt could be one of the mechanics. The Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 26, 27-38.
2013
Sato, S., Gygax, P., & Gabriel, U. (2013). Grammatical features and their impact on the representation of gender in bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 16, 792-807
Gygax, P.M., Sarrasin, O., Lévy, A., Sato., S., & Gabriel, U. (2013). La représentation mentale du genre pendant la lecture : état actuel de la recherche et directions futures. Journal of French Language Studies, 23, 243-257.
2012
Gillioz, C., Gygax, P., & Tapiero, I. (2012). Individual differences and emotional inferences during reading comprehension. The Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66, 239-250.
Garnham, A., Gabriel, U., Gygax, P., Sarrasin, O. & Oakhill, J. (2012). Gender representation in language and grammatical cues: When beauticians, musicians and mechanics remain men. Discourse Processes, 49, 481-500.
Wagner-Egger, P., Gygax, P., & Ribordy, F. (2012). Racism and judging fouls: The dark side of sport. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 114, 275-289.
Gygax, P., Gabriel, U., Lévy, A., Pool, E., Grivel, M., & Pedrazzini, E. (2012). The masculine form and its competing interpretations in French: When linking grammatically masculine role names to female referents is difficult. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 24, 395-408.
Sarrasin, O., Gabriel, U., & Gygax, P.M. (2012). Sexism and attitudes toward nonsexist language: The case of English, French and German. The Swiss Journal of Psychology, 71, 113-124.
Bosson, M., Maggiori, C., Gygax, P.M., & Gay, C. (2012). Smoking and adolescence: Exploring tobacco consumption and related attitudes in three different age groups in Switzerland. Journal of Youth Studies, 15, 225-240.
2011
Gygax, P., & Gabriel, U. (2011). Gender representation in language: More than meets the eye. In R. M. Mishra & N. Srinivasan (Eds). Language-cognition interface: State of the art. Munich: Lincom Europa.
2010
Gygax, P., Bosson, M., Gay, C., & Ribordy, F. (2010). Relevance of health warnings on cigarette packages: a psycholinguistic investigation. Health Communication, 25, 397-409.
Gygax, P. (2010). L’inférence émotionnelle durant la lecture et sa composante comportementale. L’Année Psychologique, 2, 253-273.
2009
Lamontagne-Mueller L. & Gygax, P. (2009). Le modèle social/environnemental du handicap: un outil pour sensibiliser les enseignantes et les enseignants en formation. La Revue des HEP de Suisse romande et du Tessin, 9, 77-95.
Gygax, P., Gabriel, U., Sarrasin, O., Garnham, A. & Oakhill, J. (2009). Some grammatical rules are more difficult than others: The case of the generic interpretation of the masculine. European Journal of Psychology of Education, 24, 235-246.
Marmolejo-Ramos, F., Elosúa de Juan, M.R., Gygax, P., Madden, C. & Mosquero, S. (2009). Narrative text comprehension. Current trends and future research. Pragmatics and Cognition, 17, 77-88.
2008
Gabriel, U. & Gygax, P. (2008). Can language amendments change gender representation? The case of Norway. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 49, 451-457.
Gygax, P. & Gabriel, U. (2008). Can a group of musicians be composed of women? Generic interpretation of French masculine role names in absence and presence of feminine forms. Swiss Journal of Psychology, 67, 141-153.
Gygax, P., Wagner-Egger, P., Parris, B., Seiler, R., & Hauert, C.-A. (2008). A psycholinguistic investigation of football players’ mental representations of game situations: Does expertise count? Swiss Journal of Psychology, 67, 85-95.
Gabriel, U., Gygax, P., Sarrasin, O., Garnham, A. & Oakhill, J. (2008). Au-pairs are rarely male: Role names’ gender stereotype information across three languages. Behavior Research Methods Instruments and Computers, 40, 206-212.
Gygax, P., Gabriel, U., Sarrasin, O., Garnham, A. & Oakhill, J. (2008). There is no generic masculine in French and German: When beauticians, musicians and mechanics are all men. Language and Cognitive Processes, 23, 464-485.
2007
Gygax, P., Tapiero, I. & Carruzzo, E. (2007). Emotion inferences during reading comprehension: What evidence can the self-pace reading paradigm provide? Discourse processes, 44, 33-50.
Gygax, P. & Gesto, N. (2007). Lourdeur de texte et féminisation. L’Année Psychologique, 107, 233-250.
2005
Gnesa, R., & Gygax, P. (2005). Pertinence des messages de santé : Une étude sur les temps de lecture des phrases à messages préventifs. Bulletin de Psychologie, 58, 233-239.
2004
Gygax, P., Garnham, A. & Oakhill, J. (2004). Understanding Emotions in Text: Readers Do Not Represent Specific Emotions. Language and Cognitive Processes, 19, 613-638.
2003
Gygax, P., Oakhill, J. & Garnham, A (2003). Emotion in Text Comprehension: Do Readers Infer Specific emotions. Cognition and Emotion, 17, 413-428.