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Moe, Angelica – Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
Males outperform females in the Mental Rotation Test (MRT) for biological, strategic and cultural reasons. The present research tested a motivational explanation with the hypothesis that females could do better when induced to have positive beliefs and expectations. All-female and all-male samples were divided into six groups, each having listened…
Descriptors: Females, Research Methodology, Gender Differences, Males
Miller, Kent S., Ed.; Dreger, Ralph Mason, Ed. – 1973
The contents of this book are organized in seventeen chapters, as follows: (1) "Perspective and Overview," K. S. Miller and R. M. Dreger; (2) "Racial Experimenter Effects," J. M. Sattler; (3) "Behavior-genetic Analysis and its Biosocial Consequences," J. Hirsch; (4) Biological Substrata," R. M. Malina; (5) "Language Abilities of Black Americans,"…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitudes, Biological Influences, Cognitive Processes