Traditional sex-based categories are giving way to more expanded notions of gender among young men and women today. Along with feminine and masculine personalities, some individuals combine both for a more androgynous persona, whereas others exhibit few distinctly feminine or masculine characteristics. In a study of 118 gifted college students,…

Discusses the gender schema theory of sex typing, which proposes that sex typing derives largely from the child's readiness to encode and organize information according to the culture's definition of maleness and femaleness. Explores conditions that produce gender schematic processing and discusses strategies for raising gender aschematic…

Gender schema theory proposes that sex typing derives from gender-based schematic processing, particularly from the self-concept itself being assimilated to the gender schema. In two studies sex-typed individuals were found to have a greater readiness to process information (including information about the self) in terms of the gender schema.…