Eleanor Maccaoby

16 Pages 3901 Words

hemselves from their boys, which is concurrent with sex-role stereotypes, but they were unexpectedly more acceptant of comfort seeking in their sons than in their daughters. Fathers, on the other hand, were more acceptant of comfort seeking from their daughters, and allowed more aggression toward themselves from their daughters than their sons. Rothbart and Maccoby (1966) concluded from this information that the sex of the parent is a better predictor of his or her differential response to boys and girls than sex-role stereotyping.
After studying parents’ reactions to the needs/wants of a child, Maccoby’s next step was to put parents in real life situations with their own children in order to observe their interactions, and thus, Maccoby(1984), along with Jacklin and DiPietro, continued her study of how children acquire knowledge of sex-typed behavior. The authors set up visits with 45-month old boys and girls, and observed each child as he/she interacted with one parent, and then another. The experimenters supplied the toys: a set ...