Gender differences in way-finding strategies: relationship to spatial ability and spatial anxiety.
Differences between women and men in the self-reported use of two different way-finding strategies were examined in a sample of primarily white middle to lower middle class college undergraduates. Women were more likely to report using a route strategy (attending to instructions on how to get from p...
| Publicado en: | Sex Roles Vol. 30; pp. 765 - 780 |
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Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
June 1994
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