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Silence Fiction : Rethinking (Under) Representations of the “Feminine” Through Social Melinda Szaloky

Cinéma et cognition Article abstract Volume 12, Number 2, hiver 2002 This essay readdresses the issue of the social marginalization of women in light of social cognitive theories of schema- and -driven perception, URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/024882ar reasoning, memory, and behavior. The notions of "fundamental attribution DOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/024882ar error," "stereotype threat," and "outcome dependency" will help elucidate why women's words and actions have traditionally been construed as less See table of contents consequential than those of their male peers. Moreover, the essay discusses the benefits of the social cognitive model for film scholarship. It argues that 's comprehensive, micro-level understanding of how our habitual, normative reality is constructed can usefully complement those theories of Publisher(s) cinematic defamiliarization that invoke the of the mind (e.g., Cinémas Deleuze's "time-image").

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Melinda Szaloky

RÉSUMÉ L'auteure revoit la question de la marginalisation sociale des femmes, mais cette fois à la lumière des théories cognitives sociales des perceptions dirigées par les schémas et les stéréotypes, le raisonnement, la mémoire et le comportement. Les notions d'« erreur fondamentale d'attribution » (« fundamental attri­ bution error»), de «menace du stéréotype» («stereo­ type threat ») et de « dépendance aux influences exté­ rieures » (« outcome dependency ») seront convoquées afin d'expliquer pourquoi les mots et les actions des femmes ont traditionnellement été considérés comme ayant moins de portée que ceux des hommes. De plus, l'auteure évalue les bénéfices du modèle cognitif social pour les recherches en études cinématographiques: la compréhension raisonnée de la façon dont notre réalité habituelle et normative est construite peut être un complément fort utile aux théories cinématographiques de la dé-familiarisation qui invoquent la psychologie de l'esprk (notamment, 1'« image-temps » de Deleuze).

ABSTRACT This essay readdresses the issue of the social marginal- ization of women in light of social cognitive theories of schema- and stereotype-driven perception, reasoning, memory, and behavior. The notions of "fundamental attribution error," "stereotype threat," and "outcome dependency" will help elucidate why women's words and actions have traditionally been construed as less consequential than those of their male peers. Moreover, the essay discusses the benefits of the social cognitive model for film scholarship. It argues that social cogni­ tion's comprehensive, micro-level understanding of how our habitual, normative reality is cons