Do Gender, Discipline, and Mental Rotation Influence Orientation on “You-Are-Here” Maps
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Título: | Do Gender, Discipline, and Mental Rotation Influence Orientation on “You-Are-Here” Maps
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Autor/a: | Campos García, Alfredo
Campos Juanatey, Diego
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Centro/Departamento: | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Psicoloxía Social, Básica e Metodoloxía
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Palabras chave: | Sex | Rotation | Imagery | Maps | Orientation | |
Data: | 2020
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Editor: | SAGE Publishing
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Cita bibliográfica: | Campos, A., & Campos-Juanatey, D. (2020). Do Gender, Discipline, and Mental Rotation Influence Orientation on “You-Are-Here” Maps. SAGE Open
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Resumo: | A common challenge people encounter in unfamiliar cities is finding their way using static maps. In the present study, we
analyzed the relationship of a person’s mental rotation ability, college educational specialization (e.g., Architecture, Fine
Arts, Psychology, and Business Studies), and sex with personal orientation when using “you-are-here” maps. We recruited
a sample of 547 individuals, undergraduates who were tasked with orientation maps placed in different positions (e.g., 0º,
90º, and 180º). All three variables were related to the number of correct responses in orientation using these “you-arehere”
maps. Participants with high mental rotation ability obtained significant higher correct orientations than those with
low ability. Men obtained more correct orientations responses than women, and Architecture, Fine Arts, and Psychology
undergraduates had more correct responses than Business Studies undergraduates |
Versión do editor: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244019898800 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10347/26505
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DOI: | 10.1177/2158244019898800 |
ISSN: | 2158-2440
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E-ISSN: | 2158-2440
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Dereitos: | © The Author(s) 2019. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage)
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