Infants' knowledge about gender stereotypes and categories;La connaissance des catégories de genre et des stéréotypes sexués chez le jeune enfant

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Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 283-310

  Poulin Dubois, Diane ^b   Serbin, Lisa A ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Concepts; Gender schema; Gender typed stereotypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 52249120259     PISSN: 00137545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3917/enf.583.0283     Document Type: Article

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