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| Title |
Sex differences in the inference and perception of causal relations within a video game
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, August 2014
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00926 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Michael E. Young |
| Abstract |
The learning of immediate causation within a dynamic environment was examined. Participants encountered seven decision points in which they needed to choose, which of three possible candidates was the cause of explosions in the environment. Each candidate was firing a weapon at random every few seconds, but only one of them produced an immediate effect. Some participants showed little learning, but most demonstrated increases in accuracy across time. On average, men showed higher accuracy and shorter latencies that were not explained by differences in self-reported prior video game experience. This result suggests that prior reports of sex differences in causal choice in the game are not specific to situations involving delayed or probabilistic causal relations. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 19 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 18 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 5 | 26% |
| Student > Master | 5 | 26% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 3 | 16% |
| Professor | 2 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 2 | 11% |
| Other | 2 | 11% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 7 | 37% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 16% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 2 | 11% |
| Design | 2 | 11% |
| Neuroscience | 2 | 11% |
| Other | 3 | 16% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 September 2014.
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