Abstract

For my research I will study the interaction habits of boys and girls. I wanted to watch these children and observe this behavior: to see if girls interacted with girls more than boys, and boys would play with boys more than girls. Bigler & Liben and Fagot & Hagan‘s Journal articles support my hypothesis of the children interacting with their own sex more. But Shirley and Heywood would disagree and support the idea that there is no difference. I wanted to study this because I think that it would be interesting to find that children really do play with their own sex. These findings would be interesting to me because my childhood was the exact opposite of what I am hypothesizing.

Recommended Citation

Saito, Melani (2003) "Research Proposal: Gender Stereotypes Within Children‘s Play," Undergraduate Psychology Research Methods Journal: Vol. 1: Iss. 2, Article 13.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/psych_journals/vol1/iss2/13