Gender differences in geographical knowledge
Gender differences in geographical knowledge
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地理知识的性别差异
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发表时间：
1987
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通讯作者：
A. Tröster
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作者：
W. Beatty;A. Tröster
在涉及1800多名本科生的五项实验中，男性比女性更准确地在美国或其各个地区的地图上定位位置。这些性别差异不能归因于教育程度、旅行经历、旅行欲望，也不能归因于日常生活中偶然接触到的几种潜在地理信息来源的数量。男性在自我中心和非中心空间定位测试中的表现比女性更准确，但在这些任务中的表现只能微弱地预测地理知识测试的准确性。由于男性和女性在不熟悉的地图上学习地点位置的速度相似，无论这种学习是在有意的还是偶然的指导下发生的，地理知识的性别差异不能归因于在地图上学习地点位置的能力差异。提出了一个注意力假设来解释男性在地理知识测试中更准确的表现。
In five experiments involving more than 1800 undergraduate students, males more accurately located places on maps of the United States or its various regions than did females. These gender differences could not be attributed to education, travel history, desire to travel, or in the amount of incidental exposure to several potential sources of geographic information in everyday life. Males performed more accurately than females on measures of egocentric and allocentric spatial orientation, but performance on these tasks was only weakly predictive of accuracy on tests of geographical knowledge. Since males and females learned the locations of places on an unfamiliar map at similar rates, regardless of whether such learning occurred under intentional or incidental instructions, gender differences in geographical knowledge cannot be attributed to differences in capacity to learn place locations on maps. An attentional hypothesis is proposed to account for the more accurate performance of males on tests of geographical knowledge.
影响因子：
4.6
作者：
LINN, MC;PETERSEN, AC
通讯作者：
PETERSEN, AC