Male more than female infants imitate propulsive motion

Cognition

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 262-267

  Benenson, Joyce F ^a,b   Tennyson, Robert ^a   Wrangham, Richard W ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMMANUEL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Imitation; Infancy; Propulsive movement; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; INFANT; MALE; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIALIZATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LOCOMOTION; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIALIZATION;

EID: 80053130778     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.07.006     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Alexander G.M., Hines M. Sex differences in response to children's toys in nonhuman primates (Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus). Evolution and Human Behavior 2002, 23(6):467-479.
2. Alexander G.M., Wilcox T., Woods R. Sex differences in infants' visual interest in toys. Archives of Sexual Behavior 2009, 38(3):427-433. 10.1007/s10508-008-9430-1.
3. Bandura A., Bussey K. On broadening the cognitive, motivational, and sociocultural scope of theorizing about gender development and functioning: Comment on Martin, Ruble, and Szkrybalo (2002). Psychological Bulletin 1999, 130:691-701.
4. Bandura A., Huston A.C. Identification as a process of incidental learning. The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 1961, 63(2):311-318. 10.1037/h0040351.
5. Bandura A., Ross D., Ross S.A. Transmission of aggression through imitation of aggressive models. The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 1961, 63(3):575-582.
6. Benenson J.F., Duggan V., Markovits H. Sex differences in infants' attraction to group versus individual stimuli. Infant Behavior & Development 2004, 27(2):173-180.
7. Benenson J., Liroff E., Pascal S., Della Cioppa G. Propulsion: A behavioral expression of masculinity. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 1997, 15:37-50.
8. Berenbaum S.A., Hines M. Early androgens are related to childhood sex-typed toy preferences. Psychological Science 1992, 3(3):203-206.
9. Berenbaum S.A., Snyder E. Early hormonal influences on childhood sex-typed activity and playmate preferences: Implications for the development of sexual orientation. Developmental Psychology 1995, 31(1):31-42.
10. Campbell A., Shirley L., Heywood C., Crook C. Infants' visual preference for sex-congruent babies, children, toys and activities: A longitudinal study. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 2000, 18:479-498.
11. Connellan J., Baron-Cohen S., Wheelwright S., Batki A., Ahluwalia J. Sex differences in human neonatal social perception. Infant Behavior & Development 2000, 23(1):113-118.
12. Gosso Y., Otta E., Morais M.d.L.S.e, Ribeiro F.J.L., Bussab V.S.R. Play in hunter-gatherer society. The nature of play: Great apes and humans 2005, 213-253. Guilford Press, New York, NY, US. A.D. Pellegrini, P.K. Smith (Eds.).
13. Hassett J.M., Siebert E.R., Wallen K. Sex differences in rhesus monkey toy preferences parallel those of children. Hormones and Behavior 2008, 54(3):359-364.
14. Huston A.C. The development of sex typing: Themes from recent research. Annual Progress in Child Psychiatry & Child Development 1986, 168:186.
15. Kahlenberg S., Wrangham R.W. Sex differences in chimpanzees' use of sticks as play objects resemble those of children. Current Biology 2010, 20:1067-1068.
16. Kohlberg L. A cognitive-developmental analysis of children's sex-role concepts and attitudes. The development of sex differences 1966, 82-173. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA. E.E. Maccoby (Ed.).
17. Konner M. Hunter-gather infancy and childhood. Hunter-gatherer childhoods 2005, 19-64. Transaction, New Brunswick, NJ. B.S. Hewlett, M.E. Lamb (Eds.).
18. Lytton H., Romney D.M. Parents' differential socialization of boys and girls: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin 1991, 109(2):267-296.
19. Maccoby E.E. The two sexes: Growing up apart, coming together 1998, Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, US.
20. Mahon B.Z., Caramazza A. Concepts and categories: A cognitive europsychological perspective. Annual Review of Psychology 2009, 60:27-51.
21. Martin C.L., Ruble D.N., Szkrybalo J. Cognitive theories of early gender development. Psychological Bulletin 2002, 128:903-933.
22. Öhman A., Mineka S. The malicious serpent: Snakes as a prototypical stimulus for an evolved module of fear. Current Directions in Psychological Science 2003, 12(1):5-9. 10.1111/1467-8721.01211.
23. Parke R.D. Fatherhood 1996, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, US.
24. Pasterski V.L., Geffner M.E., Brain C., Hindmarsh P., Brook C., Hines M. Prenatal hormones and postnatal socialization by parents as determinants of male-typical toy play in girls with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia. Child Development 2005, 76(1):264-278.
25. Quinn P.C., Yahr J., Kuhn A., Slater A.M., Pascalis O. Representation of the gender of human faces by infants: A preference for female. Perception 2002, 31(9):1109-1121.
26. Ruble, D. N., Martin, C. L., & Berenbaum, S. A. (2006). Gender Development. In N. Eisenberg, W. Damon & R. M. Lerner (Eds.), Handbook of child psychology: Social, emotional, and personality development (6th ed., Vol. 3, pp. 858-932). Hoboken, NJ, US: John Wiley & Sons.
27. Scarr S., McCartney K. How people make their own environments: A theory of genotype → environment effects. Child Development 1983, 54:424-435.
28. Serbin L.A., Poulin-Dubois D., Colburne K.A., Sen M.G., Eichstedt J.A. Gender stereotyping in infancy: Visual preferences for and knowledge of gender-stereotyped toys in the second year. International Journal of Behavioral Development 2001, 25(1):7-15. 10.1080/01650250042000078.
29. Thomas J.R., French K.E. Gender differences across age in motor performance: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin 1985, 98:260-282.
30. Watson N.V. Sex differences in throwing: Monkeys having a fling. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2001, 5(3):98-99.
31. Wood W., Eagly A.H. A cross-cultural analysis of the behavior of women and men: Implications for the origins of sex differences. Psychological Bulletin 2002, 128(5):699-727. 10.1037/0033-2909.128.5.699.
32. Zosuls K.M., Ruble D.N., Tamis-LeMonda C.S., Shrout P.E., Bornstein M.H., Greulich F.K. The acquisition of gender labels in infancy: Implications for gender-typed play. Developmental Psychology 2009, 45(3):688-701.