Gender-typed toy play in dizygotic twin pairs: a test of hormone transfer theory.
Hormone transfer theory predicts that opposite-sex twins will be affected in utero by the hormones their twins produce. This study examines the prediction that opposite-sex dizygotic twins should show less stereotyped toy play than same-sex dizygotic twins as a result of exposure to opposite-sex ho...
| Published in: | Sex Roles Vol. 39; no. 3-4; pp. 173 - 185 |
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Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
August 1998
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