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The role of parents in the emergence of sex differences in children’s play: Interrelations among parental attitudes, parental toy choices, and children’s toy preferences.
Girls and boys tend to play with different toys. In general, girls prefer dolls, domestic toys, and beauty sets more than boys do, whereas boys prefer toy vehicles, construction toys, toy weapons, and sports-related toys more than girls do. Several mechanisms have been suggested to contribute to …
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The role of culture in children’s sex-typed preferences for colours, toys, and affordances: A systems theory approach
Children’s sex-typed preferences for colours and toys are well-established, and often function as markers of sex-typicality in research on the development of sex-typed behaviour. However, children’s sex-typed colour and toy preferences have not been tested cross-culturally, or in remote …
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Sex differences in 12, 18 and 24-old-month infants' preference for colour, toys and shape
… have found differences between boys' and girls' preferences for sex-typed toys during infancy. Toy preferences have been explained using biological, social and cognitive theories. More recently, focus has turned towards the low-level properties of toys that boys and girls find attractive. The …
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Infants' reasoning about animals
… (as indicated by shape similarity) to share food preferences – a kind relevant property, but not the same toy preferences – a kind irrelevant property. These contrasting results suggest that infants did not simply expect similar objects to share similar non-obvious properties. Rather, their …