Brilliance stereotypes associating brilliance with boys, higher-SES, and White children emerge by age 6¶
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q2 i? By age 6, girls in US samples were less likely than same-age boys to view their own gender as 'really, really smart'. → Christina A. Bauer 2025
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Christina A. Bauer 2025¶
Christina A. Bauer, Aashna Poddar, Eddie Brummelman, & Andrei Cimpian. (2025). The Brilliance–Belonging Model: How Cultural Beliefs About Intellectual Ability Undermine Educational Equity. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-025-10034-2
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The review reports, citing Bian et al. (2017) and Jaxon et al. (2019), that gender-brilliance stereotypes emerge between ages 5 and 7 in US samples, with similar patterns among 7-year-olds in South Korea and Japan. Children as young as 6 also perceive low-SES children as less smart.
"6- and 7-year-old girls, but not 5-year-old girls, were less likely than same-age boys to view their own gender as “really, really smart”"
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Brilliance stereotypes associating brilliance with boys, higher-SES, and White children emerge by age 6 |
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Brilliance stereotypes associating brilliance with boys, higher-SES, and White children emerge by age 6 |
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