Posted on 11/22/2017 9:35:03 AM PST by rickmichaels
Boys and girls are driven by biology to play with toys that are traditionally aimed at their own gender, according to a new study.
The research found that an innate drive pushes boys to prefer trucks and cars and aggressive toys such as guns or toy soldiers.
A similar inbuilt instinct may be the reason why girls have always liked to play with dolls, cosmetics or toys based on domestic life, it said.
But the impact of feminism on parents, advertising and media may be a reason why girls have been less keen on dolls, make-up and kitchen toys in recent years, according to the research paper.
Girls are more likely than boys to be influenced as they grow up by parents, the adults and children around them, and what they read and see on television, it said, while boys stick to boys toys.
The study produced by a team led by psychologists from City, University of London, was based on evidence collected by different researchers across the Western world over decades, with some dating back to the 1930s.
It said: Despite methodological variation in the choice and number of toys offered, context of testing, and age of child, the consistency in finding sex differences in childrens preferences for toys typed to their own gender indicates the strength of this phenomenon and the likelihood that it has a biological origin.
The paper added that there were robust differences between the toy choices of girls and boys, and that this was so across decades and in different experiments.
This, the study said, indicates an innate influence on this behaviour.
The findings come at a time of deepening controversy over the choice of toys made by children, and heightened awareness over transgender issues.
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And, they also think that *they* have not been....
LOL for sure!
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