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Peer reviewedSwitzer, Jo Young – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1990
Utilizes a sample of 225 first graders and 246 seventh graders to examine the imagery developed in response to neutral words. Finds that the children developed sex-specific masculine imagery in response to neutral messages, with boys doing so more frequently than girls, but the seventh graders used more inclusive imagery than the first graders.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Communication Research, Elementary School Students
