dc.contributor.author | Benenson, Joyce Frances | |
dc.contributor.author | Tennyson, Robert | |
dc.contributor.author | Wrangham, Richard W. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-08-11T15:13:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Benenson, Joyce. F., Robert Tennyson, and Richard W. Wrangham. 2011. "Male More Than Female Infants Imitate Propulsive Motion." Cognition 121, no. 2: 262-67. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0010-0277 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12712845 | |
dc.description.abstract | Few experimental studies investigate the mechanisms by which young children develop sex-typed activity preferences. Gender self-labeling followed by selective imitation of same-sex models currently is considered a primary socialization mechanism. Research with prenatally androgenized girls and non-human primates also suggests an innate male preference for activities that involve propulsive movement. Here we show that before children can label themselves by gender, 6- to 9-month-old male infants are more likely than female infants to imitate propulsive movements. Further, male infants’ increase in propulsive movement was linearly related to proportion of time viewing a male model’s propulsive movements. We propose that male sex-typed behavior develops from socialization mechanisms that build on a male predisposition to imitate propulsive motion. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | Anthropology | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2011.07.006 | en_US |
dash.license | OAP | |
dc.subject | Infancy | en_US |
dc.subject | Imitation | en_US |
dc.subject | Sex differences | en_US |
dc.subject | Propulsive movement | en_US |
dc.title | Male more than female infants imitate propulsive motion | en_US |
dc.type | Journal Article | en_US |
dc.description.version | Accepted Manuscript | en_US |
dc.relation.journal | Cognition | en_US |
dash.depositing.author | Wrangham, Richard W. | |
dc.date.available | 2014-08-11T15:13:25Z | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.07.006 | * |
dash.contributor.affiliated | Benenson, Joyce | |
dash.contributor.affiliated | Wrangham, Richard | |