Relative size is a spatial concept that can increase our understanding of environmental cognition. Data from questionnaires tested several hypotheses about size distortion of states. Subjects distorted sizes logarithmically except in a zone of indiscrimination that included eight states. Male subjects were more accurate than female subjects in the estimation of actual state sizes; however, a sex-linked territoriality was not identified.
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Steven L. Driever (1983) studied this question.
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