动机调节导航性能中的性别差异
Victor R Schinazi1,2,3, Dario Meloni4, Jascha Grübel4,5
1Chair of Cognitive Science, Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. vschinaz@bond.edu.au.
Scientific reports
|September 25, 2023
概括
动机可以减少导航中的性别差异. 一项研究发现,当女性因花费太长时间而面临金钱处罚时,她们的导航性能与男性相匹配,这表明压力可以使表现平等.
科学领域:
- 认知心理学 认知心理学
- 神经科学是一个神经科学.
- 人与计算机的交互
背景情况:
- 空间导航中的性别差异得到了充分证实,男性通常表现优于女性.
- 以前的研究表明,性别之间存在不同的导航策略.
- 动机在缓解这些差异方面的作用仍未得到充分研究.
研究的目的:
- 调查由金钱处罚引起的动机是否会影响导航性能中的性别差异.
- 检查生理兴奋如何与导航效率有关.
- 分析性别特定的导航策略及其在压力下的修改.
主要方法:
- 参与者学习了虚拟城市中的地标位置,在学习期间可选地图使用.
- 测试涉及没有地图的导航,分为控制和金钱处罚 (治疗) 组.
- 监测生理兴奋,测量导航时间和航线效率.
主要成果:
- 在生理兴奋和里程碑检索时间之间观察到负相关性.
- 在学习过程中,女性花费了更多的时间使用地图,并比男性花费了40%的时间来定位地标.
- 对照组的女性表现明显差于治疗组的男性和女性,时间更长,使用更绕的路线.
结论:
- 货币激励作为压力因素,可以激励女性与男性一样高效地导航,减少观察到的性别差距.
- 动机和生理兴奋似乎是影响跨性别导航性能的关键因素.
- 这些发现表明,环境或任务相关的压力可以减轻空间导航中的性别差异.
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