People often view certain ways of classifying people (eg, by gender, race, or ethnicity) as
reflecting real distinctions found in nature. Such categories are viewed as marking …

Social categorization is a universal mechanism for making sense of a vast social world with
roots in perceptual, conceptual, and social systems. These systems emerge strikingly early …

In laboratory studies, praising children's effort encourages them to adopt incremental
motivational frameworks—they believe ability is malleable, attribute success to hard work …

Addressing the complexity, flexibility, and controversies of qualitative research's many
genres, Designing Qualitative Research, Sixth Edition gives students, research managers …

Girls tend to have more negative math attitudes, including gender stereotypes, anxieties,
and self-concepts, than boys. These attitudes play a critical role in math performance, math …

Sexual and asexual reproduction are found throughout the plant and animal kingdoms.
Asexual reproduction has its advantages, chief among which is that it does not require the …

Being born a girl or a boy has implications that carry considerably beyond chromosomal,
hormonal, and genital differences. In this chapter, we consider the developmental processes …

In The Gardener and the Carpenter, Alison Gopnik, one of the world's leading child
psychologists, illuminates the paradoxes of parenthood from a scientific perspective and …

Gender role development occurs in the earliest months and years of a child's life. Parental
attitudes, behaviours and modelling are likely to play a significant role in this process; …

W hat individual differences in gender are important to study? Because gender refers to the
cultural meanings ascribed to male and female social categories in societies, psychologists …