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FIGURE 5.6 Spatial abilities and sexual orientation Which of the four figures can be rotated to match the target figure at the top? Straight males tend to find this an easier task than do straight females, with gays and lesbians intermediate. (From Rahman et al., 2003, with 60 people tested in each group.)
Republished with permission of Perceptual and Motor Skills, from “Mental Rotations, A Group Test of Three-Dimensional Spatial Visualization,” by Steven G. Vandenberg and Allan R. Kuse, in Volume 47, Issue 2, October 1978: pp. 599–604 (doi:10.2466/pms.1978.47.2.599); permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.