PSY317H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Two Cultures, Ingroups And Outgroups, Physical Attractiveness
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Gender bias: gender bias refers to the manner in which social preferences and attitudes are grounded in gender, whether you want to interact with someone, if you want to be nice or mean to the, etc. Gender bias: topics of interest: gender and children"s social preference, popularity, bullying and harassment, appraisals of gender nonconformity, challenging gender bias. Intervention research: gender - neutral child - rearing. The "two cultures" of childhood: although boys and girls have similar home and classroom environments, their peer groups differ markedly. Interconnectedness typically group of friends are all interconnected: probably best friends with the same person for a long time, 2 or 3 girls. More domestic-type and nurturing style of play: playing with dolls, wrestling one another. Why do children gender - segregate? (some hypotheses) Compatibility of play styles: girls find rough and tumble play and dominance aversive.
