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Young and Older Adults' Gender Stereotype in Multitasking

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, December 2015
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Title
Young and Older Adults' Gender Stereotype in Multitasking
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Frontiers in Psychology, December 2015
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01922
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Authors

Tilo Strobach, Alesia Woszidlo

Abstract

In the present study, we investigated discrepancies between two components of stereotyping by means of the popular notion that women are better at multitasking behaviors: the cognitive structure in individuals (personal belief) and the perceived consensus regarding certain beliefs (perceived belief of groups). With focus on this notion, we examined whether there was empirical evidence for the stereotype's existence and whether and how it was shared among different age groups. Data were collected from 241 young (n = 129) and older (n = 112) German individuals. The reported perceptions of gender effects at multitasking were substantial and thus demonstrated the existence of its stereotype. Importantly, in young and older adults, this stereotype existed in the perception of attributed characteristics by members of a collective (perceived belief of groups). When contrasting this perceived belief of groups and the personal belief, older adults showed a similar level of conformation of the gender stereotype while young adults were able to differentiate between these perspectives. Thus, young adults showed a discrepancy between the stereotype's components cognitive structure in individuals and perceived consensus regarding certain beliefs.

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Country Count As %
Canada 1 3%
Unknown 38 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 10 26%
Student > Master 6 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 10%
Professor 4 10%
Researcher 3 8%
Other 5 13%
Unknown 7 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 11 28%
Neuroscience 4 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 10%
Engineering 3 8%
Social Sciences 3 8%
Other 6 15%
Unknown 8 21%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 August 2019.
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#2,420,508
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