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This study extended the search for boundary conditions of the well-known female dominance in psychomotor reminiscence by comparing subjects of Caucasoid and Negroid ancestries. Apportioned equally among the four combinations of sex and race, 72 subjects engaged in alternating periods of massed practice and rest on a mirror tracking task. Females of both races reminisced more than their male counterparts, but race contributed virtually nothing to the variance of reminiscence. However, Caucasoid subjects maintained an essentially constant margin of task proficiency over Negroid subjects across the practice sequence. Various hypotheses concerning this effect are discussed.
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Payne, R.B., Turkat, I.D. Sex, race, and psychomotor reminiscence. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 19, 336–338 (1982). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330275
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