WHERE IN THE WORLD AM I - SEX AND HANDEDNESS DIFFERENCES IN KNOWLEDGEOF GEOGRAPHY

Authors
SNYDER PJ HARRIS LJ
Citation
Pj. Snyder et Lj. Harris, WHERE IN THE WORLD AM I - SEX AND HANDEDNESS DIFFERENCES IN KNOWLEDGEOF GEOGRAPHY, Perceptual and motor skills, 82(3), 1996, pp. 1379-1385
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology, Experimental
Journal title
Perceptual and motor skills → ACNP
ISSN journal
00315125
Volume
82
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Part
2
Pages
1379 - 1385
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-5125(1996)82:3<1379:WITWAI>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
218 college students (96 men and 122 women, including nearly equal num bers of right-handers and left-handers) were administered a modified v ersion of the ''Gallup Geography Test.'' Men outperformed women, and l eft-handed women outperformed right-handed women. We suggest that thes e results cannot be easily explained by any credible sociocultural mod el but are consistent with a neuropsychological model of sex and hande dness differences in spatial ability advanced by Harshman, Hampson, an d Berenbaum in 1983.