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Peer reviewedBigler, Rebecca S. – Child Development, 1995
Investigated the effect of using gender as a functional category in elementary school students' gender stereotyping. Results support the idea that the functional use of gender categories leads to increases in gender stereotyping, particularly among those children with less-advanced classification skills. Advanced classification skills proved to…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Children, Classification, Cognitive Development
