title: Where are the gender differences? Male priming boosts spatial skills in women
creator: Ortner, Tuulia M.
creator: Sieverding, Monika
subject: 150
subject: 150 Psychology
description: The effects of gender stereotype activation by priming on performance in a spatial task were investigated among a mixed adult sample (including students) of 161 men and women (mean age=31.90) from Austria (Europe).  They were assigned to one of four experimental groups  according to gender and stereotype activation condition.  After a male or female gender stereotype activating task,  participants worked on a test assessing mental rotation  (three-dimensional cube test, Gittler 1990). A significant  main effect of priming on the performance in the mental  rotation task emerged. Cohen’s d showed a pronounced gender difference emerging only in the female priming condition (d=.59), whereas it disappeared in the male priming condition (d=.01).
publisher: Springer
date: 2008
type: Article
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/19329/1/Ortner_Sieverding_gender_differences_2008.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00019329
identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11199-008-9448-9
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-193294
identifier:   Ortner, Tuulia M. ; Sieverding, Monika  (2008) Where are the gender differences? Male priming boosts spatial skills in women.  Sex roles : a journal of research, 59 (3).  pp. 274-281.  ISSN 0360-0025     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/19329/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng