Does gender role socialization mediate sex differences in mental rotations?

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1101-1111

  Saucier, Deborah M ^a   McCreary, Donald R ^b   Saxberg, Juliana K J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b Clinical Research and Development Program   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gender; Mental rotations; Path analysis; Sex differences; Spatial ability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037134058     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(01)00106-4     Document Type: Article

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