Boys will be boys; Cows will be cows: Children's essentialist reasoning about gender categories and animal species

Child Development

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 461-481

  Taylor, Marianne G ^a   Rhodes, Marjorie ^b   Gelman, Susan A ^b  

^a PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NOMENCLATURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 65349113283     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01272.x     Document Type: Article

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