Citation

Picucci L, Caffò AO, Bosco A. J. Environ. Psychol. 2011; 31(4): 430-438.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Academic Press)

DOI

10.1016/j.jenvp.2011.01.005

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

A virtual version of the reorientation task was employed to test new behavioral measures of navigation strategies and spatial confidence within a gender-fair assessment approach. The results demonstrated that, from a behavioral point of view, women had lower level of spatial confidence than men regardless of level of accuracy. Moreover, the way men and women selected spatial strategies depended on the arrangement of spatial cues within the environment. In other terms women relied on landmarks under specific conditions compatible with an adaptive combination/associative model of spatial orientation. Finally, the present study emphasized the importance to assess gender differences taking into account specific affective variables and information selection processing, beyond accuracy.