Gender Stereotypes and the Coordination of Mnemonic Work within Heterosexual Couples: Romantic Partners Manage their Daily To-Dos
Gender Stereotypes and the Coordination of Mnemonic Work within Heterosexual Couples: Romantic Partners Manage their Daily To-Dos
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10.1007/s11199-017-0743-1
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发表时间：
2017-10-01
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3.8
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Mason, Malia F.
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作者：
Ahn, Janet N.;Haines, Elizabeth L.;Mason, Malia F.
夫妻似乎通过发出提醒来帮助对方记住未完成的任务（“待办事项”）。我们检查，如果妇女和男子在频率上的差异，他们提供这种形式的助记符。五项研究测量了异性恋夫妇如何在浪漫关系中协调记忆工作。前两项研究表明，男性被认为做这种形式的记忆工作较少（研究1），并且比女性承受更少的社会压力（研究2）。接下来的三项研究表明，男性往往比女性做得更少，当男性帮助他们的伴侣记忆时，这种帮助往往涉及他们是利益相关者的差事。这一概念证明了更大的可访问性的例子，妇女的提醒行为比男子的提醒行为，为双方的合作伙伴（研究3），并在较少的帮助提醒，男子提供的，相比那些妇女提供的，作为评级的合作伙伴（研究4a）和独立的编码器（研究4b）。这些研究结果表明，相对于女性而言，男性更不愿意关注伴侣的需求，这可能是因为这样做对男性的要求比对女性的要求要低。帮助行为的影响和可能的后果与执行不成比例的记忆工作的关系进行了讨论。
Couples appear to help each other remember outstanding tasks ("to-dos") by issuing reminders. We examine if women and men differ in the frequency with which they offer this form of mnemonic assistance. Five studies measure how heterosexual couples coordinate mnemonic work in romantic relationships. The first two studies demonstrate that men are assumed to do less of this form of mnemonic work (Study 1) and experience less societal pressure to do so than women do (Study 2). The next three studies suggest that men tend to do less of this mnemonic work than women do and that, when men do mnemonically help their partners, the help tends to involve errands for which they are stakeholders. This notion was evidenced in the greater accessibility of examples of women's reminding acts than men's reminding acts for both partners (Study 3) and in the less helpful reminders that men provided, compared to those women provided, as rated by both partners (Study 4a) and independent coders (Study 4b). These results converge on the possibility that men, relative to women, are less inclined to be concerned with keeping track of their partners" outstanding needs, perhaps because doing so is a behavior that is less strongly prescribed for men than for women. Implications for helping behavior and the possible consequences associated with performing disproportionate mnemonic work in relationships are discussed.