Rahe, Martina and Weigelt, Matthias and Jansen, Petra (2022) Mental rotation with colored cube figures. CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION, 102: 103350. ISSN 1053-8100, 1090-2376
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)Abstract
Men usually outperform women in psychometric mental rotation tests with cube figures. This advantage could be pronounced due to the male stereotyped rotational objects. The present study aims to investigate whether gender differences in favor of men are absent when the stimuli are less male stereotyped. Therefore, 112 participants solved three psychometric mental rotation tests with cube figures colored in pink, blue, and grey. Men outperformed women independent of stimulus color. In the pink and the grey version of the test, participants with beliefs of spatial abilities as masculine performed better than those with feminine beliefs. The mental rotation test performance with pink figures was predicted by gender and gender stereotypes in spatial abilities. In the blue and grey version, gender and self-rated spatial abilities predicted the performance. It can be assumed that the stereotype activation by stimulus color was not sufficient to influence the performance.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | SEX-DIFFERENCES; GENDER-DIFFERENCES; PERFORMANCE; RED; METAANALYSIS; STEREOTYPES; ABILITIES; WOMEN; STEM; Mental rotation; Gender differences; Color; Stereotype; Self-rating of abilities; Spatial abilities |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 500 Natural sciences & mathematics |
| Divisions: | Human Sciences > Institut für Sportwissenschaft |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Jan 2024 13:58 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Jan 2024 13:58 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/57775 |
Actions (login required)
 |
View Item |
