title: Children's reasoning about gender-atypical preferences in different settings.
abstract: Two age groups of children, 5- and 6-year-olds (n=30) and 8- and 9-year-olds (n=26), made judgments about which of two items a character should choose: a gender-typical item or a gender-atypical item that was preferred by the character. Judgments were made about situations where the character was (a) in a familiar public setting and (b) in a country where the reversed preference was typical for that culture. At both ages and in both settings, a majority of responses endorsed the character's atypical preference. However, at both ages, endorsements of the atypical preferences were significantly less frequent in the familiar public setting that in the norm-reversed setting, and justifications indicated that there would be social consequences for defying gender norms in the familiar setting.
authors: Department of Psychology, Penn State University, Monaca, PA 15061, USA. cec23@psu.edu
authors: Clare
authors: C
authors: Conry-Murray
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002755:Choice Behavior; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D035863:Moral Development; D012931:Social Environment; D012945:Social Values; D012951:Socialization; D013240:Stereotyping