Gender and Regional Differences in Spatial Referents Used in Direction Giving

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Gender Differences in Wayfinding Strategies and Anxiety About Wayfinding: A Cross-Cultural Comparison (2002, background): “To what extent might experiential factors play a role in these gender differences? In a previous study, the tendency for both women and men to refer to North, South, East, and West when giving directions depended on the region of the United States in which they lived, although overall men tended to ”
Older people and outdoor environments: Pedestrian anxieties and barriers in the use of familiar and unfamiliar spaces (2013, background): “It was important to connect our work on barriers to older people's navigation in unfamiliar spaces with previous research that has devised standard measures to investigate gender differences in spatial ability (Lawton, 1994, 2001) and sense of direction (Hegarty et al., 2002).”