Sarah-Jane Leslie

Best Publications

• Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines

  Sarah Jane Leslie;Andrei Cimpian;Meredith Meyer;Edward Freeland

  1762
  Citations

• Gender stereotypes about intellectual ability emerge early and influence children’s interests

  Lin-Gen Bian;Lin-Gen Bian;Sarah-Jane Leslie;Andrei Cimpian;Andrei Cimpian

  1407
  Citations

• Generics: Cognition and Acquisition

  Sarah-Jane Leslie

  522
  Citations

• Cultural transmission of social essentialism

  Marjorie Rhodes;Sarah Jane Leslie;Christina M. Tworek

  510
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• Women are underrepresented in fields where success is believed to require brilliance.

  Meredith Meyer;Andrei Cimpian;Sarah Jane Leslie

  311
  Citations

• GENERICS AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE MIND

  Sarah-Jane Leslie

  308
  Citations

• The Original Sin of Cognition: Fear Prejudice, and Generalization

  Sarah-Jane Leslie

  261
  Citations

• Messages about brilliance undermine women's interest in educational and professional opportunities

  Lin Bian;Sarah Jane Leslie;Mary C. Murphy;Andrei Cimpian

  203
  Citations

• Essence and Natural Kinds: When Science Meets Preschooler Intuition1

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  193
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• Evidence of bias against girls and women in contexts that emphasize intellectual ability.

  Lin Bian;Sarah Jane Leslie;Andrei Cimpian

  139
  Citations

• Do all ducks lay eggs? The generic overgeneralization effect

  Sarah-Jane Leslie;Sangeet Khemlani;Sam Glucksberg

  139
  Citations

• How does social essentialism affect the development of inter-group relations?

  Marjorie Rhodes;Sarah Jane Leslie;Katya Saunders;Yarrow Dunham

  134
  Citations

• Quantified statements are recalled as generics: Evidence from preschool children and adults

  Sarah-Jane Leslie;Susan A. Gelman

  134
  Citations

• The Role of Generic Language in the Early Development of Social Categorization.

  Marjorie Rhodes;Sarah Jane Leslie;Lydia Bianchi;Lisa Chalik

  131
  Citations

• Conceptual distinctions amongst generics.

  Sandeep Prasada;Sangeet Khemlani;Sarah-Jane Leslie;Sam Glucksberg

  119
  Citations

• Women—particularly underrepresented minority women—and early-career academics feel like impostors in fields that value brilliance.

  Melis Muradoglu;Zachary Horne;Matthew D. Hammond;Sarah-Jane Leslie

  89
  Citations

• Subtle Linguistic Cues Increase Girls’ Engagement in Science:

  Marjorie Rhodes;Sarah Jane Leslie;Kathryn M. Yee;Katya Saunders

  78
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• What a Loaded Generalization: Generics and Social Cognition

  Daniel Wodak;Sarah Jane Leslie;Marjorie Rhodes

  77
  Citations

• ESSENCE, PLENITUDE, AND PARADOX

  Sarah-Jane Leslie

  49
  Citations

• Inferences about members of kinds: The generics hypothesis

  Sangeet Khemlani;Sarah-Jane Leslie;Sam Glucksberg

  43
  Citations