FIGSHARE METADATA

2020-06-25: This metadata file will be updated when the accompanying article has been published.
2020-10-26: The article has been accepted for publication, and the OSF public project page and author names have been added to this file.

Categories

- Personality, Social and Criminal Psychology
- Social and Community Psychology

Keywords

- Eye-tracking
- Gender-fair language
- Gender-neutral pronouns
- Hen
- Linguistic change
- Pronoun resolution
- Pronouns

References

https://osf.io/exkdx/?view_only=d261f22ca9634598a9c81082d17eb8db



GENERAL INFORMATION

1. Title of Dataset:
Open data: Are new gender-neutral pronouns difficult to process in reading? The case of hen in Swedish

2. Author Information
	Hellen P. Vergoossen, Philip Pärnamets, Emma A. Renström & Marie Gustafsson Sendén

3. Date of data collection:
	Subjects (N = 120) were tested between 2017-09-25 and 2018-03-08.

4. Geographic location of data collection: 
	Sweden

5. Funding
	Vetenskapsrådet [Swedish Research Council] (Grant 2014-1150)



SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION

1. Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: CC BY 4.0

2. Links to publications that cite or use the data:
	Vergoossen, Pärnamets, Renström & Gustafsson Sendén (accepted). Are new gender-neutral pronouns difficult to process in reading? The case of hen in Swedish. Frontiers in Psychology.

The study was preregistered: https://osf.io/exkdx/?view_only=d261f22ca9634598a9c81082d17eb8db

3. Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data:
	N/A

4. Relationships to ancillary data sets:
	N/A

5. Was data derived from another source? 
	No

6. Recommended citation for this dataset
	Vergoossen, H. P., Pärnamets, P., Renström, E. A., & Gustafsson Sendén, M. (2020). Open data: Are new gender-neutral pronouns difficult to process in reading? The case of hen in Swedish. 



DATA & FILE OVERVIEW

File List:
Included are the raw data, preprocessing script, preprocessed data file, and the main analyses of the study.

HEN_psychopy_experiment.ZIP: contains the files to run the experiment, including the stimuli.

HEN_rawdata_eye-tracking.ZIP: contains raw eye-tracking data files for each subject in .IDF format (generated by SMI BeGaze)

HEN_rawdata_psychopy.RAR: contains log/key press, order of stimulus display and reading time recordings of the eye-tracking experiment for each subject (generated by PsychoPy)

HEN_preprocessing_scripts.ZIP: Preprocessed data and R scripts to analyze the data. Note that we removed sensitive data from the qualtricsdata_raw.csv file.

HEN_results.ZIP: contains model summaries



METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION


1. Descriptions of methods used for collection of data:
	An eye-tracker (SMI IView X™ Hi-Speed eye-tracker with a sampling rate of 1250 Hz) was used to record eye movements. The sentence pairs were presented using the PsychoPy software (Peirce et al., 2019). The font used was Courier New, 30 pt and the screen was approximately 70 cm from the participants’ eyes. The questionnaire data was collected through Qualtrics immediately after the experiment was completed.
For more information, see OSF page.


2. Methods for processing the data:
The eye movement measures (fixation time, dwell time, refixation time) were extracted with the BeGaze software (SensoMotoric Instruments, 2014). 
For more information, see OSF page.


3. Instrument- or software-specific information needed to interpret the data:
BeGaze (SensoMotoric Instruments, 2014). Requires software license.
Psychopy (Peirce et al., 2019) https://www.psychopy.org/
Rstudio used with R (R Core Team, 2017): https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/ 


4. Standards and calibration information, if appropriate:
Before and halfway through each experiment there was a calibration procedure to estimate the visual degree of error. If the average deviation of the gaze position exceeded 0.5°, the calibration was redone (as recommended by Holmqvist et al., 2011). Calibration was successful for all participants (average calibration accuracy = 0.41°, SD = 0.08). 


5. Environmental/experimental conditions:
For more information, see OSF page.


6. Quality-assurance procedures performed on the data:
For more information, see OSF page.


7. People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission:


- Data collection: HV.
- Data processing and analysis: HV and PP.
- Submission: HV, MGS, PP, ER.







References



Holmqvist, K., Nyström, M., Andersson, R., Dewhurst, R., Jarodzka, H., & van de Weijer, J. (2011). Eye tracking : A comprehensive guide to methods and measures. Oxford University Press.

Peirce, J. W., Gray, J. R., Simpson, S., MacAskill, M. R., Höchenberger, R., Sogo, H., … Lindeløv, J. (2019). PsychoPy2: experiments in behavior made easy. Behavior Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-018-01193-y

R Core Team. (2017). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. Retrieved from https://www.r-project.org/

SensoMotoric Instruments. (2014). BeGaze manual: Version 3.4.