Silverman Irwin, Choi Jean, Peters Michael
Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3, Canada.
Arch Sex Behav. 2007 Apr;36(2):261-8. doi: 10.1007/s10508-006-9168-6.
This study used some of the data from the BBC Internet study to assess the universality of sex related spatial competencies, as these are described in the terms of Silverman and Eals' (1992) hunter-gatherer theory of human spatial sex differences. As predicted, men scored significantly higher than women on a test of three-dimensional mental rotations in all seven ethnic groups and 40 countries used. Close to prediction, women scored significantly higher than men on a test of object location memory in all seven ethnic groups and 35 of the 40 countries. The data were discussed in terms of their implications for research approaches in this area and a paradigm for future studies was proposed, based on the interaction of innate and environmental factors in the ontogenetic development of spatial sex differences.
本研究使用了英国广播公司互联网研究中的部分数据，以评估与性别相关的空间能力的普遍性，这些能力是根据西尔弗曼和伊尔斯（1992年）关于人类空间性别差异的狩猎采集者理论来描述的。正如所预测的那样，在所有七个种族群体以及所使用数据的40个国家中，男性在三维心理旋转测试中的得分显著高于女性。接近预测结果的是，在所有七个种族群体以及40个国家中的35个国家里，女性在物体位置记忆测试中的得分显著高于男性。根据这些数据对该领域研究方法的影响进行了讨论，并基于空间性别差异个体发育过程中先天因素与环境因素的相互作用，提出了未来研究的范式。
