Gender role orientation and performance on stereotypically feminine and masculine cognitive tasks

Sex Roles

Volumn 50, Issue 7-8, 2004, Pages 583-591

  Ritter, Dominik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bem Sex Role Inventory; Controlled Word Association Test; Gender role orientation; S M Mental Rotation Task

Indexed keywords

EID: 3843125111     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/b:sers.0000023077.91248.f7     Document Type: Article

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