High intelligence is usually counted as an asset at work. But a new study suggests that for women, it can also lead to worse treatment from colleagues. Across 826 people in the United States and China , women who scored higher on an intelligence test were rated by their teammates as more hostile, received less help and were undermined more often. Men with high scores faced no such penalty. In one group, they were treated better. The study examined whether people's cognitive ability affects how their teammates treat them, and whether that differs between women and men. Since it was published this year, the researcher behind the study, Nitya Chawla, says, women have written to her saying the findings matched their own experience at work.
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