Women’s Humility and Men’s Lack of Hubris: Gender Biases in Self-Estimated Spatial Intelligence.
Women tend to view themselves as less capable than men. Some have interpreted this as female underestimation and male overestimation, a phenomenon called hubris-humility effect. While such an effect could have important practical implications (e.g., on career choices), only few studies compared wome...
| Publicado en: | Sex Roles Vol. 91; no. 4; pp. 1 - 25 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=184537028&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 184537028 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 03600025 SXR jtl: Sex Roles issn: 03600025 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Apr2025 vid: 91 iid: 4 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 184537028 10.1007/s11199-025-01572-8 ppf: 1 ppct: 24 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.7MB tig: atl: Women’s Humility and Men’s Lack of Hubris: Gender Biases in Self-Estimated Spatial Intelligence. aug: au: Hofer, Gabriela Hünninghaus, Marla Platzer, Jana Grinschgl, Sandra Neubauer, Aljoscha affil: https://ror.org/01faaaf77 Institute of Psychology, Section for Differential Psychology, University of Graz, Universitätsplatz 2, 8010, Graz, Austria https://ror.org/02k7v4d05 Institute of Psychology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland keyword: Hubris-humility effect Interests Personality Self-estimate Spatial intelligence STEM Studies in Human Society Other Studies In Human Society Psychology and Cognitive Sciences Psychology Hubris-humility effect Interests Personality Self-estimate Spatial intelligence STEM Studies in Human Society Other Studies In Human Society Psychology and Cognitive Sciences Psychology ab: Women tend to view themselves as less capable than men. Some have interpreted this as female underestimation and male overestimation, a phenomenon called hubris-humility effect. While such an effect could have important practical implications (e.g., on career choices), only few studies compared women's and men's self-estimates to their measured abilities. We investigated the hubris-humility effect in spatial intelligence, a domain in which many studies reported women’s and men’s abilities to differ substantially. Participants (n = 208; 103 women and 105 men; aged 18–37) completed self-estimate and performance measures of spatial intelligence and additional questionnaires on personality and interests. Surprisingly, women and men performed similarly well in the spatial tests. Still, women, on average, provided more negative self-estimates of their overall spatial intelligence and concrete test performance than men. This constituted female humility but not male hubris: Women underestimated themselves, but men did not overestimate themselves. To contextualize the effect, we tested associations between misestimation and specific personality traits (narcissism and honesty-humility). Especially people higher in grandiose narcissism provided overly positive self-estimates. However, even when we accounted for individual differences in grandiose narcissism, women still underestimated themselves more than men. We further investigated interests in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers. Women reported lower STEM interests than men—interests that, in turn, showed stronger associations to self-estimated than measured spatial intelligence. Our findings suggest that improving women’s self-views in the spatial domain might contribute towards greater gender equality in STEM. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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