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| Title |
Sex differences in parking are affected by biological and social factors
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| Published in |
Psychological Research, December 2009
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| DOI | 10.1007/s00426-009-0267-6 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Claudia C. Wolf, Sebastian Ocklenburg, Beyza Ören, Cordula Becker, Andrea Hofstätter, Christa Bös, Markus Popken, Truls Thorstensen, Onur Güntürkün |
| Abstract |
The stereotype of women's limited parking skills is deeply anchored in modern culture. Although laboratory tests prove men's average superiority in visuospatial tasks and parking requires complex, spatial skills, underlying mechanisms remain unexplored. Here, we investigated performance of beginners (nine women, eight men) and more experienced drivers (21 women, 27 men) at different parking manoeuvres. Furthermore, subjects conducted the mental rotation test and self-assessed their parking skills. We show that men park more accurately and especially faster than women. Performance is related to mental rotation skills and self-assessment in beginners, but only to self-assessment in more experienced drivers. We assume that, due to differential feedback, self-assessment incrementally replaces the controlling influence of mental rotation, as parking is trained with increasing experience. Results suggest that sex differences in spatial cognition persist in real-life situations, but that socio-psychological factors modulate the biological causes of sex differences. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 19 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 2 | 11% |
| Turkey | 2 | 11% |
| Czechia | 1 | 5% |
| Kenya | 1 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 5% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 5% |
| Israel | 1 | 5% |
| Malaysia | 1 | 5% |
| Argentina | 1 | 5% |
| Other | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 7 | 37% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 18 | 95% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 5% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 61 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 3 | 5% |
| Chile | 1 | 2% |
| Australia | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 56 | 92% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 13 | 21% |
| Researcher | 9 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 10% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 4 | 7% |
| Other | 11 | 18% |
| Unknown | 10 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 22 | 36% |
| Unspecified | 5 | 8% |
| Engineering | 4 | 7% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 5% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 5% |
| Other | 11 | 18% |
| Unknown | 13 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
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