Regular ArticleStereotypes and Steroids: Using a Psychobiosocial Model to Understand Cognitive Sex Differences☆
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Address correspondence and reprint requests to to Diane F. Halpern, Department of Psychology, California State University, San Bernardino, 5500 University Parkway, San Bernardino, CA 92407. Fax: (909) 880-7003. E-mail: [email protected].
We thank Simay Ikier for assistance with the Turkish language version of the Finding A's Test and Dr. Marcia Collaer at Middlebury College for helpful comments on an earlier draft of this article. We thank the faculty in the Department of Psychology at Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Turkey, for supporting the first author during her stay in Turkey and for assistance with the Turkish language and data collection.