Same-Sex Imitation: The Avoidance of Cross-Sex Models or the Acceptance of Same-Sex Models?.

Bussey, Kay; Perry, David G.

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ERIC Number: EJ267849

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1982-Jul

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Same-Sex Imitation: The Avoidance of Cross-Sex Models or the Acceptance of Same-Sex Models?

Bussey, Kay; Perry, David G.

Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, v8 n7 p773-84 Jul 1982

After observing peer models display preferences toward various objects (subsequently sex-typed by experimenters), third and fourth graders registered their own preferences. Both boys and girls preferred same-sex objects to opposite-sex objects; but unlike boys, girls did not give lower priority to opposite-sex objects than to neutral ones. (Author/GC)

Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Experimenter Characteristics, Females, Identification (Psychology), Males, Sex Bias, Sex Differences

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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