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National disparities favoring males are reflected in girls’ implicit associations about gender and academic subjects.

Year: 2024

Type: article

Study design: Observational Study

Abstract: were positively related to both national male advantages in socioeconomic standing and national boy advantages in Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study. Second, these relations were obtained for implicit but not explicit measures of children's beliefs linking gender and academic subjects. Third, implicit associations linking gender to academic subjects increased significantly as a function of children's age. We propose a psychological account of why national gender disparities are likely to influence children's developing implicit associations about gender and academic subjects, especially for girls. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Source: Developmental Psychology

DOI: 10.1037/dev0001797

Authors: Dario Cvencek, Elizabeth A. Sanders, M. Francisca del Río, María Inés Susperreguy, Katherine Strasser, Ružica Brečić, Dora Gaćeša, David Skala, Carlo Tomasetto, Silvia Galdi, Mara Cadinu, Manu Kapur, Maria Chiara Passolunghi, Tania I. Rueda Ferreira, Alberto Mirisola, Beatrice Mariani, Andrew N. Meltzoff

Institutions: University of Washington, Universidad Diego Portales, University of Zagreb, Ekonomski fakultet - Zagreb, University of Bologna, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", University of Padua, ETH Zurich, University of Trieste, University of Palermo

Language: English

Topic: Education, Achievement, and Giftedness

Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Gender equality, Quality education

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: National Science Foundation, Bezos Family Foundation

Awards: SL-CN: Inter-generational Transfer of Beliefs about Math, Developmental Emergence of math-Gender Stereotypes and Math Self-Concepts

OpenAlex ID: W4401729958

FWCI: 3.216

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