The data and scripts used in the publication 'Children’s implicit and explicit stereotypes on the gender, social skills, and interests of a computer scientist'.
In this study, we focus on children’s implicit and explicit stereotypes regarding computer scientists’ gender, social skills and interests. We also study whether explaining what a computer scientist does affects these stereotypes. Method We study the implicit stereotypes through the reducedlength Child Implicit Association Test and the explicit stereotypes through self-reported absolute and relative Likert scale questions. We gathered data on 564 children between the age of 7 and 18 who were visiting a science museum. The participants in the experiment group (n=352) watch a video of either a man or woman explaining what a computer scientist does at the start of the study.
" authors: - family-names: de Wit given-names: Shirley orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5549-914X" - family-names: Hermans given-names: Felienne orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0722-0156" - family-names: Aivaloglou given-names: Efthimia orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6531-2166" title: "Dataset for paper Children’s implicit and explicit stereotypes on the gender, social skills, and interests of a computer scientist" keywords: version: 1 identifiers: - type: doi value: 10.4121/08c32c1d-9c9d-40e4-a012-65bd4ec9a063.v1 license: CC BY 4.0 date-released: 2025-05-26