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Research Proposal: Gender Stereotypes Within Children‘S Play, Melani Saito
Research Proposal: Gender Stereotypes Within Children‘S Play, Melani Saito
Undergraduate Psychology Research Methods Journal
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 …