Parents’ Influence on Infants’ Gender-Typed Toy Preferences.
Gender socialization influences children at early ages, shaping their developing identities. The toys provided by parents deliver some of the earliest gender-based messages by encouraging children to engage in activities associated with, for example, dolls and trucks. In the current study, we measur...
| Publicado en: | Sex Roles Vol. 79; no. 5-6; pp. 358 - 374 |
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Springer Nature
Sep2018
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