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Are girls and boys inherently biased towards gender-specific toys? Credit: Getty Images
Boys seem to favor cars from an early age, suggesting there is an "intrinsic bias" towards gender-specific toys, according to a new study.
Researchers at City University in the United Kingdom put a range of toys in front of 90 children ranging in age from 9 to 36 months and recorded who played with what and for how long, BBC News reports. The boys spent more time playing with cars and balls and the girls spent more time playing with the dolls.
"We were surprised to find the differences so early," says researcher Dr. Brenda Todd. She adds, "Children of this age are already subject to a great deal of socialization, but these findings are consistent with the idea of an intrinsic bias in children to show interest in particular kinds of toys."
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4-22-2010 @ 4:48PM
Lenore Skenazy said...I love studies like this! I've tried to raise my kids as gender neutral as possible. One is a math/computers/knives/fire kid, the other is a football/rap/knives/fire kid. They share a gender. Guess which! L.
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4-22-2010 @ 5:21PM
Susan WB said...Wow, did we really need research to prove this? How absurd. Anyone who's been a parent knows that personality and preference for certain kinds of toys, games, and activities is there from the very beginning.
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4-22-2010 @ 5:27PM
SKL said...There are, and will still be, a whole movement of people who think that my daughters like dolls because I have sucked half of their brains out, or something like that.
And nurturing is so inferior to mechanics. It's an outrage.
I am pretty sure every college-educated female under age 50 has been taught this idea. I hope most of them have eventually recognized its absurdity. But clearly many have not.
4-22-2010 @ 7:20PM
Amber W-B said...Um, how could boys have an "intrinsic" desire to play with cars? Cars are not natural. There is no way that in the 120 years that cars have existed, humans could have evolved an innate male desire for cars.
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4-22-2010 @ 11:56PM
fluture429 said...I think there is something more deeper then just boys like cars and girls like dolls. Which this study, I believe, is trying to prove. Boys like cars because they like the "science" of it, figuring out how the work, etc. I have seen my son turn over that car so many times and just spin the wheels.
Girls - dolls. Nurturing and natural need to care of something else.
It short, these things are natural.
In my study of children what I have come to realize is that there is no way to define how children "work" because God is behind it all. So apply the theories where you can and do the best you can to make the best adult you can.
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