caa a22 4500 606232583 CHVBK 20210128101227.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10508-014-0400-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10508-014-0400-5 Effects of Gender Color-Coding on Toddlers' Gender-Typical Toy Play [Elektronische Daten] [Wang Wong, Melissa Hines] Gender color-coding of children's toys may make certain toys more appealing or less appealing to a given gender. We observed toddlers playing with two gender-typical toys (a train, a doll), once in gender-typical colors and once in gender-atypical colors. Assessments occurred twice, at 20-40months of age and at 26-47months of age. A Sex×Time×Toy×Color ANOVA showed expected interactions between Sex and Toy and Sex and Color. Boys played more with the train than girls did and girls played more with the doll and with pink toys than boys did. The Sex×Toy×Color interaction was not significant, but, at both time points, boys and girls combined played more with the gender-atypical toy when its color was typical for their sex than when it was not. This effect appeared to be caused largely by boys' preference for, or avoidance of, the doll and by the use of pink. Also, at both time points, gender differences in toy preferences were larger in the gender-typical than in the gender-atypical color condition. At Time 2, these gender differences were present only in the gender-typical color condition. Overall, the results suggest that, once acquired, gender-typical color preferences begin to influence toy preferences, especially those for gender-atypical toys and particularly in boys. They thus could enlarge differences between boys' and girls' toy preferences. Because boys' and girls' toys elicit different activities, removing the gender color-coding of toys could encourage more equal learning opportunities. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2014 Gender stereotyping nationallicence Sex-typing nationallicence Gender differences nationallicence Toy preferences nationallicence Color preferences nationallicence Wong Wang Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK aut Hines Melissa Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK aut Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/5(2015-07-01), 1233-1242 0004-0002 44:5<1233 2015 44 10508 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0400-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0400-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wong Wang Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hines Melissa Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/5(2015-07-01), 1233-1242 0004-0002 44:5<1233 2015 44 10508