Confidence and gender differences on the Mental Rotations Test

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 181-186

  Cooke Simpson, Amanda ^a   Voyer, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Guessing behavior; Human gender differences; Performance factors; Spatial abilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447267998     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2007.03.009     Document Type: Article

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