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Article: Effects of gender constancy and figure's height and sex on young children's gender-type attributions.
- Article from:
- The Journal of General Psychology
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
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In 1966, Kohlberg presented a revolutionary new view of early gender role development. Parting with previous psychodynamic and behavioristic views, Kohlberg (1966) emphasized that children actively self-construct their gender schema. These cognitive - developmental models of the development of gender roles (e.g., Kohlberg, 1966; Kohlberg & Ullian, 1976; Kohlberg & Zigler, 1967) are perhaps best known, however, for the introduction of the construct of gender constancy (Maccoby, 1990; Slaby, 1990; Stangor & Ruble, 1987).
Gender constancy has been defined as children's understanding of the irreversibility of their sex, which develops in stages between about the ages of ...