DOES GENDER MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE? COMMON-SENSE CONCEPTIONS OF INTELLIGENCE
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- Published by Scientific Journal Publishers Ltd in Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal
- Vol. 20 (1), 23-34
- https://doi.org/10.2224/sbp.1992.20.1.23
Abstract
This study examined the gender dependence of conceptions of intelligence: what kinds of gender stereotypes would emerge in identifications and descriptions of target persons, adults and pupils, whom the subjects knew personally and considered to be intelligent. Characteristics of an intelligent adult were rated by a sample of the general population (N = 152) and characteristics of an intelligent pupil by a group of parents (N = 69). It was found that the image of the intelligent person, whether adult or pupil, consists of many qualities. However, it was the cognitive one (i.e. problem-solving skills) that is seen as the essence of adult intelligence, whereas school success was regarded as the essential element of pupils intelligence. Traditional gender stereotypes appeared in the images of pupils' intelligence as cognitive skill differences favoring boys, and in the images of adult intelligence as social skill differences favoring women.Keywords
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