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Direct linkMassa, Laura J.; Mayer, Richard E.; Bohon, Lisa M. – Learning & Individual Differences, 2005
The gender role hypothesis posits that performance on a cognitive ability test is influenced by whether the test instructions frame the test as measuring a skill that is consistent or inconsistent with the test taker's gender role beliefs. The Bem sex role inventory was used to measure the gender role of female college students, and the group…
Descriptors: Females, Cognitive Ability, Spatial Ability, Empathy
