{"id":1451,"date":"2017-03-12T23:34:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T23:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evst399.coolsociology.net\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2017-10-26T14:11:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T14:11:52","slug":"effect-of-infants-perceived-gender-on-adolescents-ratings-of-the-infant-by-douglas-degelman-veronika-dvorak-and-julie-ann-homutoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/?p=1451","title":{"rendered":"Effect of Infant\u2019s Perceived Gender on Adolescents\u2019 Ratings of the Infant by Douglas Degelman, Veronika Dvorak, and Julie Ann Homutoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">All three of the authors look into the role of the perceived gender of an infant and the gender of an adolescent on ratings of the infant.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>To do so, thirty-six junior high students; eighteen boys and eighteen girls; will view a photo of a 3-month-old infant.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The students will receive a name for the infant or not.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The names that are received will either be Larry or Laurie.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The students will tan rate the infant on a scale of firm\/soft, big\/little, strong\/weak, hardy\/delicate, well coordinated\/awkward, and beautiful\/plain. The scale that will be used is 1-5.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>For example, for big\/little 1 would be big and little would be 5. The same scale was used for each pairing. It was predicted that both the name that was given to the infant and the students\u2019 gender would affect the ratings.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The study was motivated by how sex-stereotyped perceptions of infants change during the time of adolescents.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Another prediction is that males and females will rate the infant differently regardless of the name given.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Lastly, it was predicted that the effect of the infants\u2019 perceived gender depends on the adolescents\u2019 gender.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>If they find that the results are what they predicted than the generality of sex-stereotyped perceptions of infants will be extended to adolescents.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>One limitation they find is the use of only one photograph of one infant of a specific age.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>An interesting aspect of the study is that they expect to find girls to rate infants more beautiful than boys do.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I think that the study may find challenges in how the setting in the photo will affect the perceptions of the infant.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Degelman , Douglas , Veronika Dvorak, and Julie Ann Homutoff. 2010. &#8220;Effect of Infant\u2019s Perceived Gender on Adolescents\u2019 Ratings of the Infant.&#8221; Vanguard University of Southern California. Accessed March 12, 2017. http:\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguard.edu\/psychology\/wp-content\/\"><span class=\"s2\">www.vanguard.edu\/psychology\/wp-content\/<\/span><\/a>uploads\/2010\/12\/proposal.pdf.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All three of the authors look into the role of the perceived gender of an infant and the gender of an adolescent on ratings of the infant.\u00a0 To do so, thirty-six junior high students; eighteen boys and eighteen girls; will view a photo of a 3-month-old infant.\u00a0 The students will receive a name for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1452,"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions\/1452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}