Dataset for paper Children’s implicit and explicit stereotypes on the gender, social skills, and interests of a computer scientist

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.