Gender differences in multitasking experience and performance.
There is a widespread stereotype that women are better at multitasking. Previous studies examining gender difference in multitasking used either a concurrent or sequential multitasking paradigm and offered mixed results. This study examined a possibility that men were better at concurrent multitaski...
| Publicado en: | Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Vol. 74; no. 2; pp. 344 - 363 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Feb2021
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