highly significantp <0.0003
Finally, as expected, the explicit negative information for females (“Females are worse”) leads to a deterioration in performance of females and an enhancement in performance of males resulting in a highly significant gender effect (10.78±2.52 and 8.24±2.44, for males and females, respectively; t (49) = 3.89, p <0.0003; effect size, Cohen's d = 1.02).