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While a wealth of evidence has established a link between the presence of beliefs about the importance of brilliance and women’s underrepresentation in a field, less work has been done to document the “brilliance = men” stereotype. The aim of the present work, then, was to provide evidence that people tend to associate intellectual giftedness with men over women. Across six studies (total N = 1,675), I devised systematic tests of people’s implicit biases about the brilliance of men vs. women, and found that children ages 9 and 10, undergraduates from the University of Illinois and New York University, general population adults from across the United States, and adults from 70 countries beyond the United States all tended to associate traits such as “genius” and “brilliant”—as well as less extreme descriptors, such as “intelligent” and “smart”—with men over women. 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