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The Development Of Sex Category Representation In Infancy: Matching Of Faces And Bodies, Alyson J. Chroust, Ashley Kangas, Nicole Zieber, Ramesh S. Bhatt
The Development Of Sex Category Representation In Infancy: Matching Of Faces And Bodies, Alyson J. Chroust, Ashley Kangas, Nicole Zieber, Ramesh S. Bhatt
Alyson J. Chroust
Sex is a significant social category, and adults derive information about it from both faces and bodies. Research indicates that young infants process sex category information in faces. However, no prior study has examined whether infants derive sex categories from bodies and match faces and bodies in terms of sex. In the current study, 5-month-olds exhibited a preference between sex congruent (face and body of the same sex) versus sex-incongruent (face and body belonging to different genders) images. In contrast, 3.5-month-olds failed to exhibit a preference. Thus, 5-month-olds process sex information from bodies and match it to facial information. However, …