The decision and movement time components of a visual choice reaction‐time task were examined using students and visitors to a university exhibition. The results of two separate studies showed that women have a faster decision time than men, and that men have a faster movement time. Since these two effects are in an opposite direction, no sex differences in the mean choice reaction times were found. It is concluded that on this particular task the cognitive performance of women is superior.
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