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People think women are morally superior to men

2025-05-20

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<p>Decades of scholarship on gender have shown that women are judged to be more caring and more communal than men. Here we use multiple methods (N = 5,376) to test an intriguing claim entailed by this work: People think that women are morally superior to men. Using reverse-correlation methods, we show that mental representations of the face of “a morally good person” is a woman’s face. Next, using a novel profile-...

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Literature Corpus work: ab816c20-cc1a-541d-bc96-4425f4055280
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/sguq5_v5

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