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Shneidman, Laura; Gweon, Hyowon; Schulz, Laura E.; Woodward, Amanda L. – Child Development, 2016
How does early social experience affect children's inferences and exploration? Following prior work on children's reasoning in pedagogical contexts, this study examined U.S. children with less experience in formal schooling and Yucatec Mayan children whose early social input is predominantly observational. In Experiment 1, U.S. 2-year-olds…
Descriptors: Social Experience, Inferences, Social Development, Cross Cultural Studies
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Martin, Carol Lynn; And Others – Child Development, 1990
Children of 4 to 10 years of age were told about children whose sex was not specified and who had a masculine or feminine toy or characteristic. Results indicated that children first learn characteristics relevant to their own sex, and that older children's stereotypic judgments about gender are more extreme than those of younger children. (BC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Femininity, Foreign Countries