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Wang, Yang; Qian, Miao; Nabbijohn, A. Natisha; Wen, Fangfang; Fu, Genyue; Zuo, Bin; VanderLaan, Doug P. – Developmental Science, 2022
Current understanding of how culture relates to the development of children's gender-related peer preferences is limited. To investigate the role of societal acceptance of gender nonconformity, this study compared children from China and Thailand. Unlike China and other cultures where the conceptualization of gender as binary is broadly accepted,…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Preferences, Gender Differences, Child Development
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Byers-Heinlein, Krista; Behrend, Douglas A.; Said, Lyakout Mohamed; Girgis, Helana; Poulin-Dubois, Diane – Developmental Science, 2017
Past research has shown that young monolingual children exhibit language-based social biases: they prefer native language to foreign language speakers. The current research investigated how children's language preferences are influenced by their own bilingualism and by a speaker's bilingualism. Monolingual and bilingual 4- to 6-year-olds heard…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Bilingualism, Preferences, Social Bias