Sex‐linked behaviors in infancy have generated a great deal of interest, in part because
they offer a way of assessing the extent to which sexually dimorphic behaviors exist before …

Recent research on mother‐infant interaction has provided little empirical support for the
role of environmental factors in early sex‐role development. In this paper, considerable …

Sex Differences in Social Behavior Page 1 CHAPTER FIFTEEN Sex Differences in Social
Behavior Vickie Pasterski , Susan Golombok , and Melissa Hines From an early age, boys and …

The focus of this article is on the development of understanding about sex and gender from
infants' earliest recognition of sex-related differences through the acquisition of gender …

Interest in the area of sex differences in human behavior dates back to the dawn of history.
However, the current interest may be attributable to the women's movement for sex equality …

This chapter deals with contrasts in the way males and females think, feel, and behave, in
the aspects of their lives that are not specifically sexual. The development of the sexual …

How does human behavior come to be gendered, and how do gendered behaviors change
or remain stable over time? Although men and women, as well as girls and boys, are largely …

Lesbian and gay individuals have been reported to show more interest in other-sex, and/or
less interest in same-sex, toys, playmates, and activities in childhood than heterosexual …

This article reviews findings from anthropology, psychology, and other disciplines about the
role of biological factors in the development of sex differences in human behavior, including …

The conceptualization of sex-role development traditionally has centered on the influences
of three rather separate and distinct factors: biological, environmental, and cognitive …