Girls prefer dolls, boys prefer trucks
Posted on: Monday, 10 August 2009, 17:12 CDT
A U.S. study of babies 3 months to 8 months suggests girls prefer dolls and boys prefer trucks, researchers said.
Gerianne Alexander, a psychologist at Texas A&M University in College Station, says the study used technology to track the eye movements of 30 infants in car seats as they watched a puppet theater-styled box.
The researchers used visual tracking monitors to measure how long the infants fixated their attention on particular toys during two 10-second intervals.
The study, published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, finds during two 10-second intervals, the girls favored dolls, boys favored the toy trucks.
The existence of these innate preferences for object features coupled with well-documented social influences may explain why toy preferences are one of the earliest known manifestations of sex-linked social behavior,
Alexander says in a statement.
Source: United Press International
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