Gender differences in implicit and explicit personality traits
- This article investigates gender differences in implicit and explicit measures of the Big Five traits of personality. In a high-powered study (N = 14,348), we replicated previous research showing that women report higher levels of Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion and Neuroticism. For implicit measures, gender differences were much smaller for all, and opposite in sign for Extraversion. Somewhat higher levels of implicit Neuroticism and Agreeableness were observed in women, and somewhat higher levels of implicit Extraversion and Openness were observed in men. There was no gender difference in implicit Conscientiousness. A possible explanation is that explicit self-concepts partly reflect social norms and self-expectations about gender roles, while implicit self-concepts may mostly reflect self-related experiences.
Author details: | Michelangelo Vianello, Konrad Schnabel, N. Sriram, Brian Nosek |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2013.08.008 |
ISSN: | 0191-8869 |
Title of parent work (English): | Personality and individual differences : an international journal of research into the structure and development of personality, and the causation of individual differences |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Place of publishing: | Oxford |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2013 |
Publication year: | 2013 |
Release date: | 2017/03/26 |
Tag: | Gender differences; IAT; Personality traits |
Volume: | 55 |
Issue: | 8 |
Number of pages: | 6 |
First page: | 994 |
Last Page: | 999 |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Psychologie |