Sex of an Observer Effects on Adults' Motor, Cognitive, and Affective Dart-Shooting Performance.

IF 1.4 4区心理学 Q4 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

Perceptual and Motor Skills Pub Date : 2024-08-11 DOI:10.1177/00315125241272509

Maha Mnif, Soufien Chikh, Eric Watelain, Mohamed Jarraya

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Abstract

Men and women are characterized by specific physiological, cerebral and emotional characteristics, as well as by the differing nature of their gestures and behaviors. Here, we examined the effects of an observer's sex on motor, cognitive and affective behaviors during dart-shooting. We compared men and women's kinematic and affective parameters when perfoming alone or when performing in the presence of an observer of a different sex. We found a sex effect on motor and cognitive performance in interaction with participants' emotional states. We observed improved accuracy and reaction time in men compared to women, which we attributed to (a) differences in emotional sensitivities between the two sexes and (b) men's superiority on precision tasks linked to men's higher proportion of cerebral white matter. Our findings also suggested a sex difference in the social effect of an observer's sex on motor and cognitive performance. Although there was no effect on affective aspects of performance, emotional state seemed to interact strongly with this social effect.

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观察者的性别对成人飞镖射击运动、认知和情感表现的影响。

男性和女性具有特定的生理、大脑和情感特征，其手势和行为的性质也各不相同。在此，我们研究了观察者的性别对射镖过程中运动、认知和情感行为的影响。我们比较了男性和女性单独或在不同性别的观察者在场时的运动和情感参数。我们发现性别对运动和认知表现的影响与参与者的情绪状态相互影响。我们观察到，与女性相比，男性的准确性和反应时间都有所提高，我们将其归因于：（a）两性在情绪敏感性上的差异；（b）男性在精确任务上的优势与男性脑白质比例较高有关。我们的研究结果还表明，观察者的性别对运动和认知表现的社会影响存在性别差异。虽然对表现的情感方面没有影响，但情感状态似乎与这种社会效应有着强烈的相互作用。

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Perceptual and Motor Skills PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-

CiteScore

2.90

自引率

6.20%

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110