Kaltner, Sandra and Jansen, Petra (2018) Sex of human stimulus matters: female and male stimuli are processed differently in mental rotation tasks. JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY, 30 (8). pp. 854-862. ISSN 2044-5911, 2044-592X
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The main goal of the present study was to assess whether the sex of a human stimulus affects mental rotation performance. The results are pretty straight-forward: Men show a better performance than women and also male stimuli result in a faster processing by both women and men compared to female stimuli. Furthermore, the advantage of egocentric transformations over object-based transformations disappeared for females in difficult tasks using female stimuli. This experiment gives a hint that women are affected to a greater extent from the sex of the presented stimuli compared to men. The underlying mechanisms need to be investigated in future research.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | GENDER-DIFFERENCES; OBJECT; METAANALYSIS; RECOGNITION; EXPERTISE; BODIES; SELF; Mental rotation; gender differences; embodied stimuli; self-related processes |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Psychology and Pedagogy > Institut für Sportwissenschaft |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Mar 2020 06:25 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Mar 2020 06:25 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/15243 |
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