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Article: Sex differences in verbal reasoning are mediated by sex differences in spatial ability.
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- The Psychological Record
- Article date:
- June 22, 2004
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There are hundreds of studies about sex differences in cognitive abilities (see Halpern, 2000, for a comprehensive review). The huge number of available databases facilitated the publication of several key meta-analyses from which some robust conclusions have been extracted. Hyde (1981) published the first meta-analysis from the data summarized by Maccoby and Jacklin (1974) in their classic book, The psychology of sex differences. The results showed that boys outperform girls in overall spatial and quantitative abilities, while the later outperform the former in overall verbal ability. Some years later, Hyde and Linn (1988) found in their meta-analysis that females ...