01 January 2018 13:14:00 IST

The real (and imaginary) benefits of multitasking

Feeling like you're multitasking improves both persistence and performance on a task

Do think you're great at multi-tasking? And do you think it's a good thing that you can juggle numerous tasks at once? According to new research from Wharton marketing professor Rom Schrift and doctoral student Shalena Srna, "multitasking is a mere illusion because it is impossible to execute more than one task at a time. Nevertheless, the perception of multitasking seems to be beneficial to performance."

To read more about the research, check-out this article on Knowledge@Wharton .