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Blocks and bodies: sex differences in a novel version of the Mental Rotations Test.
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“Multiple studies found using human figures as item content reduced the gender gap in mental rotation performance (e.g., Alexander & Evardone, 2008;Doyle & Voyer, 2018;Jansen & Lehmann, 2013)”
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“However, in view of the evidence that males appear more likely than women to employ a holistic strategy in the typical MRT using block figures (Alexander and Son, 2007; Hugdahl et al., 2006), we hypothesized that the effect of human figures on scores would be larger in women compared to men.”
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- Authors
- Alexander, G. M., & Evardone, M.
- Venue
- Hormones and Behavior
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2008-01
- Volume
- 53
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 177-184
- ISSN
- 0018-506X
- Cited by
- 58
- References
- 2
- Language
- en
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