The influence of the design of mental rotation trials on performance and possible differences between sexes: A theoretical review and experimental investigation

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-550161
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.55016

Jost, Leonardo

; Jansen, Petra

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Abstract

Sex differences in mental rotation performance are one of the largest in cognitive psychology. Men outperform women by up to 1 SD in psychometric mental rotation tests, but it is often neglected that there are no or only small sex differences for chronometric tests. As both tests are supposed to measure the same ability, we suspect some features of the tests themselves to affect sex differences ...