Clare M. Mehta

ORCID: 0000-0003-4897-6160
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Research Areas
  • Gender Roles and Identity Studies
  • Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
  • Family Dynamics and Relationships
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Identity, Memory, and Therapy
  • Gender Diversity and Inequality
  • Gender, Feminism, and Media
  • Work-Family Balance Challenges
  • LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Retirement, Disability, and Employment
  • Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
  • Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Family Support in Illness
  • Youth Development and Social Support
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Media Influence and Health
  • Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
  • Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
  • Historical Gender and Feminism Studies
  • Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
  • Social Media and Politics

Emmanuel College - Massachusetts
2013-2025

Boston Children's Hospital
2010-2023

Lifespan
2023

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
2019

Harvard University
2013-2015

Boston Children's Museum
2012

Children's Hospital
2012

West Virginia University
2008-2010

University of Chicago
1986

In developed countries, the years from Age 30 to 45 are, for many, most intense, demanding, and rewarding of adult life.During this period life span adults must negotiate intersecting demands progressing in a chosen career, maintaining an intimate partnership, caring children.Successes or difficulties meeting these simultaneous have potential profoundly influence direction person's life.As such, we believe that it is critical importance better understand developmental call established...

10.1037/amp0000600 article EN American Psychologist 2020-05-01

The sunk-cost fallacy is a decision-making bias that reflects the tendency to invest more future resources in situation which prior investment has been made, as compared with similar not made (e.g., spend time watching boring movie one paid watch than boring, but free, movie). Most research on this conducted college students (Arkes & Ayton, 1999). Although growing number of studies have investigated children, adolescents (Klaczynski, 2001), and nonhuman animals (Navarro Fantino, 2005), no...

10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02138.x article EN Psychological Science 2008-07-01

In developed countries, education and career experimentation typically extends into people's twenties (Arnett, 2000, 2015; Mehta et al., 2020). Thus, people are not committing to a path in which they can build expertise, take on increasing responsibilities, climb an organizational ladder (Day 2012) until reach established adulthood, the period of development from 30 45. As conceptualization adulthood is relatively new, little known about during this period. such, present study, we aimed...

10.1016/j.actpsy.2023.103863 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Acta Psychologica 2023-02-13

We investigated gender differences in the association between gender-segregated peer preferences and sexism adolescents (15–17 years, 60 boys 85 girls). To assess preferences, nominated peers for interaction two contexts: 'hanging out' at home working on a school project. The Modern Sexism Scale [Swim, J. K., K. Aikin, W. S. Hall, B. A. Hunter. 1995. "Sexism Racism: Old-Fashioned Prejudices." Journal of Personality Social Psychology 68 (2): 199–214] measured dimensions sexism: Antagonism...

10.1080/09540253.2013.845648 article EN Gender and Education 2013-10-25

10.1007/s10804-023-09440-z article EN Journal of Adult Development 2023-02-27
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