Sex, Cognitive Categories, and Observational Accuracy

1 December 1975

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports

Vol. 37 (3) , 987-990
https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1975.37.3.987

Abstract

Greater availability of relevant cognitive categories is hypothesized to explain females' superiority in observational accuracy. Correlations support the hypothesis and also show that availability does not explain the “same-sex recall effect.”

Keywords

SEX
SUPERIORITY
COGNITIVE CATEGORIES
RECALL EFFECT
RELEVANT COGNITIVE
OBSERVATIONAL ACCURACY GREATER
ACCURACY GREATER AVAILABILITY

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Same-Sex Recall Effects in Tests of Observational Accuracy
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1974
Sex differences in social memory tasks.
The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 1957