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Brownlow, S., Janas, A. J., Blake, K. A., Rebadow, K. T., & Mellon, L. M. (2011). Getting by with a Little Help from My Friends: Mental Rotation Ability after Tacit Peer Encouragement. Psychology, 2, 383-370.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/psych.2011.24057

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• TITLE: Women’s Mental Rotation Abilities as a Function of Priming

  AUTHORS: Leah R. Ryan, Sheila Brownlow, Benjamin Patterson

  KEYWORDS: Mental Rotation, Women’s Cognitive Abilities, Stereotype Threat

  JOURNAL NAME: Psychology, Vol.6 No.3, February 12, 2015

  ABSTRACT: This study examined how verbal priming of success or failure words influenced the Mental Rotation (MR) performance of women under stereotype threat. Women athletes and non-athletes (N = 67) completed several MR tasks after doing a word scramble that included positive or negative sports terms. The MR performance of athletes was diminished in relation to that of non-athletes when primed with negative sports-related actions. Negative primes also enhanced the performance of non-athletes in relation to their peers who had positive primes, but there were no differences in MR performances under positive priming. Thus, those who identified with a group experienced threat that negatively impacted performance, but non-athletes were unlikely to have been affected by evaluative performance concerns.