Sugar, spice and puppy dog tails: Developing sex-typed personality traits and interests

Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 07:42 in Psychology & Sociology

A new longitudinal study of children's personality traits and interests tells us that sex-typed characteristics develop differently in girls and boys. The study, by researchers at The Pennsylvania State University, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and Purdue University, appears in the March/April 2009 issue of the journal Child Development.

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