Spatial Skills, but Not Spatial Anxiety, Mediate the Gender Difference in Number Line Estimation.
Recently, there has been increasing evidence showing that males estimate whole numbers more accurately than females on the number line. However, relatively little is known about what factors contribute to this gender gap. The current study explored potential mediators of the gender difference in num...
| Publicado en: | Developmental Psychology Vol. 58; no. 1; pp. 138 - 152 |
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