Where the gender bias grows: Coming-of-age novels rife with stereotypes

An article published June 7, 2025, in the Journal of Research on Adolescence by researchers including Department of Psychology faculty Jane Mendel and Misha Inniss-Thompson, highlighted the issue of rigid gender stereotypes in novels aimed at young adults. The Cornell researchers used computational text analysis to sift through every word of more than 300 American coming-of-age novels published over the last 100 years.
Read the story in the Cornell Chronicle.

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