Implicit Preconceptions of Male and Female Intelligence in Contemporary Russia

Abstract

Investigation revealed implicit preconceptions of Male and Female Intelligence in contemporary Russian society. A substantial difference in the structure and constituting elements between the representations was shown. It was shown also that preconceptions of Male and Female Intelligence are substantially different for male and for female samples. A two-stage procedure was used. At the first stage our subjects freely described Male and Female intelligence and at the second stage we used two sets of rating scales. One of them was a set for personality traits ("Personality Semantic Differential") and another one was specially constructed of nine scales for evaluating cognitive abilities.