Young children think gender-related behaviour is inborn

Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 07:56 in Psychology & Sociology

Young children think about gender in the same way they think about species of animals. They believe, for example, that a boy's preference for football is innate, as is a girl's preference for dolls, just as cats' behaviour is innately different from dogs'...

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