The Acquisition of Gender Labels in Infancy: Implications for Gender-Typed Play

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 688-701

  Zosuls, Kristina M ^a   Ruble, Diane N ^a   Tamis LeMonda, Catherine S ^b   Shrout, Patrick E ^a   Bornstein, Marc H ^c   Greulich, Faith K ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

gender development; language development; play; self socialization; sex differences

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; RECREATION; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIALIZATION;

CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; SEMANTICS; SOCIALIZATION; STEREOTYPING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 65649139627     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014053     Document Type: Article

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