Sex differences in credulity.

Lehman, Harvey C.; Witty, Paul A.

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“…Participation in fortune-telling activities was found by Lehman and Witty (84) to be especially popular from the age of twelve and one-half through fourteen and one-half.…”

Section: Play Of Adolescence (Twelve or Thirteen To Twenty-one Years)mentioning

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Experimental investigations of childhood play.

Hurlock¹

1934

Psychological Bulletin

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Students of child psychology have emphasized the periodicity of the play behavior of children of different ages and have investigated the forms of play which are characteristic of each age. It is the purpose of this paper to bring together in systematic form the studies which relate to the play of the different stages of development from birth to maturity.Among writers, there is no agreement as to how many play periods there are in the child's development, what names shall be applied to these periods nor how long each one of them lasts. Among the best classifications of age periods in play behavior are those of Baldwin (8), Croswell (31), Curtis (32), Gulick (50), Johnson (66), King (70), Kirkpatrick (71), Lee (72), Lehman and Witty (80), Pyle (103), Puffer (102), Reaney (104), and Wood (128).Several investigators have attempted to explain the periodicity of play in terms of its causes. Lee (72), Waddle (123), and Norsworthy and Whitley (98) ascribe the different plays of different ages to "instincts." Blanchard (10) and Gulick (50) maintain that the child's play interests depend upon chronological age, physiological age, mental age and environmental situations. Lehman and Wilkerson (78) report that chronological age is more powerful than mental age in determining the child's play behavior. Reaney (104) has subdivided the play of the childhood years into four different periods, based upon chronological age. Many investigators have stressed the fact that the transition from one form of play to another is gradual and often barely perceptible. Curtis (32), Lee (72), and Lehman and Witty (80) point out that the different play periods are not separated by distinct dividing lines.In the classification of play, the following stages of development have been arbitrarily used by the writer: (1) Babyhood (birth to three years) ; (2) Childhood (three to six years) ; (3) Youth (six to eleven or twelve years); (4) Adolescence (eleven or twelve ta twenty-one years).

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“…Participation in fortune-telling activities was found by Lehman and Witty (84) to be especially popular from the age of twelve and one-half through fourteen and one-half.…”

Section: Play Of Adolescence (Twelve or Thirteen To Twenty-one Years)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Experimental investigations of childhood play.

Hurlock¹

1934

Psychological Bulletin

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“…The extensive work on the play quiz is brought together in a volume by Lehman and Witty (113). They report the relation of play to intelligence, sex differences in participation, fortune telling and esthetic appreciation and race differences in interest in boxing in four articles based on the results of this questionnaire (112,114,115,116). Contrasting attitudes towards dogs and •cats are reported by Lehman (110) and the comparative influence of chronological age and mental age on play interests is discussed by Lehman and Wilkerson (111).…”

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Personality and character tests.

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Hartshorne²,

Welty³

1929

Psychological Bulletin

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Recent studies in sex differences.

Allen¹

1930

Psychological Bulletin

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Since 1927, the field here to be reviewed has opened up at an increasingly rapid rate. A good beginning can be made with Langdon-Davies' popular chapter on the " history of human ideas about sex differences " (79). Five factors are cited as causing the myth of the " female character," and a prophecy of the future of womankind is attempted. Sumner and Keller (124) present a vast amount of carefully gathered and documented data on the social side of sexual relations, especially in primitive man. Briffault (21), a British anthropologist, offers extensive and exhaustive documentation for his thesis that the basis of human culture lies in the primitive sentiments about woman in her reproductive capacity; his three volumes contain approximately 2,300 pages. Bauer (10,11), a Viennese gynecologist, tries to prove that sex determines all of woman's actions, no matter how trivial, from birth to death, citing many references in his study of the physical, mental, sexual, and erotic aspects of feminine life. Scheuer (113) offers a historical contribution to the psychology of sex. Heilbron (60) believes woman to be inferior, " above all in the central organ, the brain." A good bibliography of titles, from classical literature to modern experiment, is found in Weith-Knudson's popular book (128). The feministic note is represented in such studies as that by Kennedy (76), using a Japanese setting.Turning to bibliographical studies, it will be unnecessary to more than mention the following: Allen (2), Ellis (44), Lincoln (86), Louttit (88, 89), Scheuer (114,115), and Woody (135) ; these give the careful student the key to the better material. In addition, Goodenough's (54) statement of a program for future research, together with a short summary of some studies in this field, is important and stimulating. Current work on sex differentiation and sex determination in animals is reported in such periodicals as the /. of Exper. Zoology and the Biol. Bull, for 1928 and 1929 especially. II. Physical Differences. Anatomical studies may be passed over rapidly in favor of studies of behavior differences. Over one thou-

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Sex differences in credulity.

Cited by 3 publications

References 19 publications

Experimental investigations of childhood play.

Experimental investigations of childhood play.

Personality and character tests.

Recent studies in sex differences.

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