Neuburger, Sarah and Ruthsatz, Vera and Jansen, Petra and Quaiser-Pohl, Claudia (2015) Can girls think spatially? Influence of implicit gender stereotype activation and rotational axis on fourth graders' mental-rotation performance. LEARNING AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES, 37. pp. 169-175. ISSN 1041-6080, 1873-3425
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Mental-rotation tasks usually induce large gender differences in favor of males. The influence of task features and stereotype activation on the mental-rotation performance of elementary-school children has rarely been investigated. This study examined the performance of 272 fourth-grade boys and girls in a psychometric mental-rotation task varying implicit gender-stereotype activation (threatening vs. non-threatening task framing) and rotational axis (picture-plane vs. in-depth rotations). Children's gender stereotypes were assessed by a questionnaire. Both genders showed a male stereotype for mental rotation. Implicit gender stereotype activation influenced the gender difference only in picture-plane mental-rotation tasks. Boys outperformed girls in the threatening condition, but not in the non-threatening condition, here. However, in-depth rotation tasks induced a significant male advantage in both the threatening and the non-threatening conditions. Findings suggest that a task framing relating mental rotation to arts induces a stereotype-lift effect and that the rotational axis moderates the effect of implicit gender-stereotype activation. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc All rights reserved.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | SEX-DIFFERENCES; COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE; WORKING-MEMORY; THREAT; ABILITY; DIFFERENCE; METAANALYSIS; COMPUTER; CHILDREN; IDENTITY; Mental rotation; Gender differences; Children; Stereotype threat; Stereotype lift |
| Subjects: | 700 Arts & recreation > 796 Athletic & outdoor sports & games |
| Divisions: | Psychology and Pedagogy > Institut für Sportwissenschaft |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Aug 2019 12:05 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Aug 2019 12:05 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/6290 |
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