The present study investigated the relationship between nonverbal decoding ability and cognitive mode. Archer's picture of a social scene was used as a test to measure nonverbal decoding ability. The Cognitive Mode Questionnaire—Revised, standardized in Japan, gave a measure of subjects' cognitive mode. Subjects were 43 male and 29 female Japanese undergraduates. Those individuals whose cognitive responses were characterized by “imagery and imagination” scored higher on Archer's test, but the dimension of “analysis and abstraction” was not related. There was no sex difference.
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