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Article: Boys will be boys. (developmental research of boys' behavior)(includes related article)(Cover Story)
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- Newsweek
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- May 11, 1998
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Developmental research has been focused on girls; now it's their brothers' turn. Boys need help, too, but first they need to be understood.
IT WAS A CLASSIC MARS-VENUSencounter. Only in this case. the woman was from Harvard and the man--well boy--was a 4-year-old at a suburban Boston nursery school. Graduate student Judy Chu was in his classroom last fall to gather observations for her doctoral dissertation on human development. His greeting was startling: he held up his finger as if it were a gun and LLpretended to shoot her. 'I felt bad," Chu recalls. "I felt as if he didn't like me. Months later and much more boy-savvy. Chu has a different interpretation: the ...