Mother-child conversations about gender: Understanding the acquisition of essentialist beliefs

Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development

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  Gelman, Susan A ^a   Taylor, Marianne G ^b   Nguyen, Simone P ^c   Leaper, Campbell ^d   Bigler, Rebecca S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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