Infants prefer toys typed to their gender, says study
Sunday, July 17, 2016 - 19:21
in Psychology & Sociology
Children as young as 9 months-old prefer to play with toys specific to their own gender, according to a new study. The research suggests the possibility that boys and girls follow different developmental trajectories with respect to selection of gender-typed toys and that there is both a biological and a developmental-environmental components to the sex differences seen in object preferences.
