Men are more likely to be seen as "brilliant" than women, according to a new study published today in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Researchers found that this gendered stereotype that men are intellectually superior to women isn’t held consciously but is rather a result of implicit bias, which is when associations are automatically activated in our minds
"People explicitly say that they associate women with brilliance. Yet implicit measures reveal a different story about the more automatic gender stereotypes that come to mind when thinking about brilliance," explained Tessa Charlesworth, a doctoral student at Harvard University and co-author of the paper.