Journal
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PERSONALITY SCIENCE
Volume 11, Issue 5, Pages 638-646Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1948550619879911
Keywords
gender stereotyping; prescriptive stereotypes; gender preferences; transgender children; middle childhood
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- National Science Foundation [1837857, 1523632, 1715068]
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [HD092347]
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie
- SBE Off Of Multidisciplinary Activities [1715068] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie [1523632] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- SBE Off Of Multidisciplinary Activities
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie [1837857] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Early in childhood, children already have an awareness of prescriptive stereotypes-or beliefs about what a girl or boy should do (e.g., girls should play with dolls). In the present work, we investigate the relation between children's own prescriptive gender stereotypes and their perceptions of others' prescriptive gender stereotypes within three groups of children previously shown to differ in their prescriptive stereotyping-6- to 11-year-old transgender children (N = 93), cisgender siblings of transgender children (N = 55), and cisgender controls (N = 93). Cisgender and transgender children did not differ in their prescriptive stereotypes or their perceptions of others' prescriptive stereotypes, though the relationship between these variables differed by group. The more cisgender control children believed others held prescriptive stereotypes, the more they held those stereotypes, a relation that did not exist for transgender children. Further, all groups perceived the stereotypes of others to be more biased than their own stereotypes.
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