Mother-child conversations about gender : understanding the acquisition of essentialist beliefs
By Susan A. Gelman, M. G. Taylor, S. P. Nguyen. 2004
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Subfields: History, Law, Reproductive Medicine
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Citations in the corpus
- Gendered Parenting in Early Childhood: Subtle But Unmistakable if You Know Where to Look (2018, background): “Several types of books have been used, including those featuring gender-neutral animal characters (26) and human characters engaging in gender-related activities that are stereotypical and counterstereotypical (27, 28).”
- Gender Stereotypes in the Family Context: Mothers, Fathers, and Siblings (2013, background): “Gender schema theory proposes that children will internalize these gender-typed experiences in a gender schema of their own (Gelman et al. 2004; Witt 1997).”
- Determinants of Gender Essentialism in College Students (2008, result): “To the extent that the implicit terms assess gender beliefs less overtly than the explicit terms, the present findings are consistent with other research showing that implicit measures can be especially revealing of gender stereotyping (Gelman et al 2004; Lemm and Banaji 1999).”
- Implicit Gender Stereotypes and Essentialist Beliefs Predict Preservice Teachers’ Tracking Recommendations (2016, background): “…been discussed as means to rationalize and explain the existing social order (Hoffman & Hurst, 1990; Jost & Banaji, 2004; Keller, 2005; Yzerbyt et al., 1997), adding evidence to the claim that essentialist beliefs might be one central cognitive bias underlying stereotyping (Gelman et al., 2004).”
- Boys Don’t Play with Dolls: Mothers’ and Fathers’ Gender Talk during Picture Book Reading (2014, methodology): “indirectly express the belief that certain behaviors are more appropriate for either girls or boys (Gelman et al., 2004).”
- How Stereotypes Are Shared Through Language: A Review and Introduction of the Social Categories and Stereotypes Communication (SCSC) Framework (2019, background): “, A girl wears pink), and are accompanied by present-tense verbs (Gelman et al., 2004; Rhodes, Leslie, & Tworek, 2012).”
- Gender Identity and Stereotyping in Early and Middle Childhood (2010, background): “In a study of mother–child conversations about gender while looking through a storybook, Gelman et al. (2004) showed that 30-month-olds have some difficulty identifying the gender of a person who is engaging in a gender-atypical activity.”
- Learning from others: children's construction of concepts. (2009, background): “For example, in one study of gender-related talk in a book-reading context (Gelman et al. 2004), 64% of mothers contrasted distinct gender categories (male and female) at least once, and 89% of mothers engaged in gender labeling at least once, in conversations with children 2 to 6 years of age.”