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The effects of sex of speaker and listener on recall from a medical audiotape
Author(s) -
Hartley James,
Brown Cathryn,
Michael David
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
british journal of educational technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.79
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1467-8535
pISSN - 0007-1013
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8535.1989.tb00731.x
Subject(s) - recall , psychology , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology
Two studies are reported that examine the effects of the sex of the speaker and the sex of the listener on recall from a medical audiotape on multiple sclerosis. Previous research in other contexts has suggested that males might be more effective speakers than females, that males might be more effective listeners than females, and that there might be an interaction between the sex of the speaker and the sex of the listener so that male listeners might recall more from male speakers and female listeners might recall more from female ones. Despite considerable differences between the two reported studies, the results from both were very similar. Both produced no evidence to support any of the above suggestions.