Sexual selection and sex differences in spatial cognition

Sexual Selection and Sex Differences in Spatial Cognition

It is argued that a reliable and substantive sex difference, favoring males, exists in dynamic forms of spatial cognition, in particular, in the ability to mentally manipulate 3-d imensional representations of astir, track movement in 3-dimensional space, navigate, and in terms of an implicit understanding of Euclidean features of physical space. It is proposed that these sex differences arise ...

Sexual Selection and Sex Differences in Spatial Cognition

It is argued that a reliable and substantive sex difference, favoring males, exists in dynamic forms of spatial cognition, in particular, in the ability to mentally manipulate 3-d imensional representations of astir, track movement in 3-dimensional space, navigate, and in terms of an implicit understanding of Euclidean features of physical space. It is proposed that these sex differences arise ...

Sexual Selection and Sex Differences in Social Cognition

Sex differences in social behavior and cognition: utility of sexual selection for hypothesis generation.

Knickmeyer and colleagues’ (this issue) provide intriguing evidence for a nascent and possibly hormonally influenced sex difference, favoring preschool girls, for some aspects of theory of mind (ToM), that is, skill at making inferences about the thoughts, feelings, and intentions of other people. The study is important because the measure used to assess the associated generation of mental and ...

Sex differences in spatial cognition, computational fluency, and arithmetical reasoning.

Alternative explanations for the male advantage in arithmetical reasoning, as measured by the ability to solve complex word problems, include a male advantage in spatial cognition and a male advantage in computational fluency. The current study was designed to test these competing hypotheses. To this end, 113 male and 123 female undergraduates were administered arithmetical computations and ari...