L'emergere della categorizzazione di genere: il ruolo della preferenza per il genere femminile

This study examined whether 3-month-oldinfants possess the abilities to match bimodal information specifying gender and how this ability is affected by the spontaneous visual preference for female gender (i.e. DeCasper e Prescott, 1983; Quinn et al., 2002). Results support the existence of a visual preference for female gender (Experiment 1). Moreover, results show that at 3-month a female face is preferred to a male face when they are matched to a female voice (Experiment 2), and that this preference disappears when a female and a male faces are matched with a male voice (Experiment 3). Altogether the finding suggest that the gender-appropriate bimodal preference for female depends largely on visual information.