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Female hurricanes are deadlier than male hurricanes.
Do people judge hurricane risks in the context of gender-based expectations? We use more than six decades of death rates from US hurricanes to show that feminine-named hurricanes cause significantly more deaths than do masculine-named hurricanes. Laboratory experiments indicate that this is because hurricane names lead to gender-based expectations about severity and this, in turn, guides respon...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: EDIS
سال: 1969
ISSN: 2576-0009
DOI: 10.32473/edis-in535-2004