Jansen, Petra and Kaltner, Sandra and Memmert, Daniel (2017) Approaching behavior reduces gender differences in the mental rotation performance. PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH-PSYCHOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNG, 81 (6). pp. 1192-1200. ISSN 0340-0727, 1430-2772
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In this study, we investigated if the enactment of an approaching or avoiding behavior influences the mental rotation performance. Thirty-five females and thirty males completed a chronometric mental rotation task either in an approaching or in an avoiding condition while manipulating their arm position. The results showed a significant influence of this embodied behavior dependent on gender and task difficulty. The approaching condition caused no gender difference in reaction times and a reduced gender difference in accuracy for the most difficult tasks, while the avoidance condition produced the well-known gender differences in mental rotation for both reaction time and accuracy. We demonstrate that an approaching behavior improves the visual-spatial performance of females and gives a hint that the role of motivation must be investigated in more detail in further research.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | AVOIDANCE MOTOR ACTIONS; 3-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS; SEX-DIFFERENCES; ABILITY; TRANSFORMATIONS; CHILDREN; WOMEN; |
| Subjects: | 700 Arts & recreation > 796 Athletic & outdoor sports & games |
| Divisions: | Psychology and Pedagogy > Institut für Sportwissenschaft |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Dec 2018 13:19 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Feb 2019 08:02 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/1972 |
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