Publications by authors named "Tessa Benson-Greenwald"
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- * It found that stronger beliefs in equal childcare (both in what is considered normal and what should be the case) are associated with the availability of parental leave policies.
- * While the data suggests that changes in parental leave policies can shift perceptions of social norms over time, the study acknowledges that it cannot definitively determine cause-and-effect relationships due to its cross-sectional design.
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- The article analyzes how gender norms regarding housework and child care changed in 15 countries after the COVID-19 pandemic, based on data from over 8,300 participants.
- Findings show that perceptions of mothers doing more domestic work compared to fathers increased during the pandemic.
- The study highlights that countries with higher gender inequality saw greater shifts in these norms, underscoring the need to address the unique challenges mothers encounter during health crises to promote gender equality.
The current research examined whether life sciences vs. engineering/physical sciences vary in the visibility and value of communality and agency. Overall, we find an emphasis on agency in engineering/physical sciences and a greater balance between communality and agency in the life sciences.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlthough representations of female scientists in the media have increased over time, stereotypical portrayals of science persist. In-depth, contemporary profiles of scientists' roles have an opportunity to reflect or to challenge stereotypes of science and of gender. We employed content and linguistic analyses to examine whether publicly available profiles of scientists from and support or challenge pervasive beliefs about science.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFScience can improve life around the world, but public trust in science is at risk. Understanding the presumed motives of scientists and science can inform the social psychological underpinnings of public trust in science. Across five independent datasets, perceiving the motives of science and scientists as prosocial promoted public trust in science.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn the Mindset of Opportunity: Proactive Mindset, Perceived Opportunities, and Role Attitudes.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull
December 2022
Perceiving roles as fulfilling goals offers motivational benefits to students, and yet the features of individuals or contexts that align with seeing such role opportunities have not been studied systematically. The current research investigated how these goal affordances are related to proactive mindset or a person's belief that they can shape their contexts. Three studies examined how variation in proactivity aligns with perceiving more communal and agentic goal opportunities in roles.
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