| Male more than female infants imitate propulsive motion. | |
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PMID: 21843883 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Few experimental studies investigate the mechanisms by which young children develop sex-typed activity preferences. Gender self-labeling followed by selective imitation of same-sex models currently is considered a primary socialization mechanism. Research with prenatally androgenized girls and non-human primates also suggests an innate male preference for activities that involve propulsive movement. Here we show that before children can label themselves by gender, 6- to 9-month-old male infants are more likely than female infants to imitate propulsive movements. Further, male infants' increase in propulsive movement was linearly related to proportion of time viewing a male model's propulsive movements. We propose that male sex-typed behavior develops from socialization mechanisms that build on a male predisposition to imitate propulsive motion. |
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Joyce F Benenson; Robert Tennyson; Richard W Wrangham |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-8-13 |
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Title: Cognition Volume: - ISSN: 1873-7838 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Aug |
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Created Date: 2011-8-16 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0367541 Medline TA: Cognition Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Copyright © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
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Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Department of Psychology, Emmanuel College, 400 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115, USA. |
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