Girls prefer to play with dolls and boys with cars very early on in life. One British study showed this bias existed when children were between one and three years old.
Boys prefer cars very early on Socialisation is of course important, but I also know of another study, where girls that were born with an overproduction of testosterone also were more likely to prefer to play with cars compared with girls with normal levels of testosterone. An explanation put forward by one of the recent researchers is evolutionary. Girls prefer to play with dolls because they have a nurturing tendency. The reason why they prefer pink is because it is the usual color of a newborn baby (a bit far-fetched, don´t you think). Boys prefer moving objects because they have a hunting instinct. As usual this is only a hypothesis.
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1/18/2015 05:03:51 pm
The reason why they prefer pink is because it is the usual color of a newborn baby (a bit far-fetched, don´t you think).
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