Journal
ANNUAL REVIEW OF PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 61, Issue -, Pages 353-381Publisher
ANNUAL REVIEWS
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.093008.100511
Keywords
gender typing; stereotypes; dynamic systems; sex segregation; timescales
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- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [1 R01 HD45816, 1 R01 HD04994]
- T Denny Sanford Foundation
- National Science Foundation IRADS [0721383]
- EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH &HUMAN DEVELOPMENT [R01HD045816] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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A comprehensive theory of gender development must describe and explain long-term developmental patterning and changes and how gender is experienced in the short term. This review considers multiple views on gender patterning, illustrated with contemporary research. First, because developmental research involves understanding normative patterns of change with age, several theoretically important topics illustrate gender development: how children come to recognize gender distinctions and understand stereotypes, and the emergence of prejudice and sexism. Second, developmental researchers study die stability of individual differences over time, which elucidates developmental processes. We review stability in two domains-sex segregation and activities/interests. Finally, a new approach advances understanding of developmental patterns, based on dynamic systems theory. Dynamic systems theory is a metatheoretical framework for studying stability and change, which developed from the study of complex and nonlinear systems in physics and mathematics. Some major features and examples show how dynamic approaches have been and could be applied in studying gender development.
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