Montgomery student presents research at seventh annual Celebration of Scholars event

2017 May 2

Carthage College held the seventh annual Celebration of Scholars event on Friday, April 28, 2017. Celebration of Scholars is a poster exhibition that features original research, scholarship, and creative work completed by Carthage students.

Miranda Aldrich of Montgomery presented "Perceptions of Talk Time" at the event.

This is the project's abstract:

"This study was designed to explore the effects of gender and race on talk time perceptions. This study could have implications in many different areas, such as women in the business world and stereotype research. There also is not much research looking at the intersectionality between gender and race related to talk time. Study one used a national survey through Amazon Mechanical Turk to look at descriptive and prescriptive stereotypes related to talk time. It asked participants about how talkative race/gender pairings are and how desirable it is for the group to be talking be according to society. Results show that Asian men and women are perceived to the quietest group in society, and women are perceived to be more talkative than their male race counterparts. It was also shown that men were more desirable to be speaking. In study two, participants listen to either a male or female monologue, then take a survey estimating how long they believe the speaker spoke for. Research is ongoing but we hypothesize that participants will estimate the speaker taking up more time talking when the speaker is female than when the speaker is male."