eprintid: 19329
rev_number: 24
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datestamp: 2015-09-10 12:40:51
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creators_name: Ortner, Tuulia M.
creators_name: Sieverding, Monika
title: Where are the gender differences? Male priming boosts spatial skills in women
subjects: 150
divisions: 100200
keywords: Gender priming; Gender differences; Spatial skills; Mental rotation; Test fairness
abstract: 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).
date: 2008
publisher: Springer
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00019329
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11199-008-9448-9
ppn_swb: 1657792161
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-193294
language: eng
bibsort: ORTNERTUULWHEREARETH2008
full_text_status: public
publication: Sex roles : a journal of research
volume: 59
number: 3
place_of_pub: New York, NY
pagerange: 274-281
issn: 0360-0025
citation:   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     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/19329/1/Ortner_Sieverding_gender_differences_2008.pdf