Abstract. Female authors of fiction often perceive themselves to be undervalued in relation to their male counterparts. What is not clear is whether this preference for male authors comes from readers or publishers. Two pre-registered studies examined how university students evaluated book passages attributed to either male or female authors, and investigated whether negative evaluations of romance novels are based on their association with women. In Study 1, participants read identical passages attributed to either male or female authors and evaluated them. Study 2 extended this work by adding attributions of genre: either romance or literary fiction. Linear mixed-effects modeling and Bayesian analyses were employed to analyze these data. Study 1 demonstrated little preference for books attributed to males over females and Bayesian analyses confirmed support for the null in most cases. The results of Study 2 similarly suggested that author gender and genre attributions do not have a strong influence on evaluations.

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我们是否根据作者的性别来判断小说？

摘要。女性小说作者经常认为自己与男性同行相比被低估了。尚不清楚的是，这种对男性作者的偏好是来自读者还是出版商。两项预先注册的研究调查了大学生如何评价归因于男性或女性作者的书籍段落，并调查了对浪漫小说的负面评价是否基于它们与女性的关联。在研究 1 中，参与者阅读归因于男性或女性作者的相同段落并对其进行评估。研究 2 通过添加类型属性来扩展这项工作：浪漫或文学小说。采用线性混合效应建模和贝叶斯分析来分析这些数据。研究 1 表明男性对书籍的偏好远甚于女性，贝叶斯分析证实了在大多数情况下支持无效。研究 2 的结果同样表明作者的性别和体裁属性对评价没有很大的影响。