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Sex Differences in the Brain: From Genes to Behavior

Jill B. Becker, Karen J. Berkley, Nori Geary, Elizabeth Hampson, James P. Herman, and Elizabeth Young

Print publication date: 2007

Print ISBN-13: 9780195311587

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2010

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195311587.001.0001

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Sex Differences in Children’s Play

Sex Differences in Children’s Play

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(p.275) Chapter 14 Sex Differences in Children’s Play
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Sex Differences in the Brain
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Sheri A. Berenbaum

Carol Lynn Martin

Laura D. Hanish

Phillip T. Briggs

Richard A. Fabes

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195311587.003.0014

Sex differences in play have led many scholars to suggest that boys and girls grow up and live in separate cultures. The differences have considerable significance for mental health, social relationships, and cognition across the life span. This chapter addresses the following questions: What are these differences? How do they come about? What do they mean for the world outside of play? What can they tell us about sex differences in other characteristics? Sex differences in childhood play are important for many reasons: they are large, they lead to sex differences in other characteristics (including cognition and adjustment), and they reflect the joint effects of biological predispositions, the social world, and children's constructions of that world.

Keywords:   sex differences, children, childhood play, cognition, social world, biological predisposition

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