... words, whether it is the beholder who sees behavioural differences because he expects to see them. If this is found to be true, it would provide a useful insight into how children pick up their behaviour patterns. I.e. how their behaviour is shaped by the adults around them. It is expected that this study will backup the findings from the Condry and Condry study, and that, therefore, the same gender stereotypes still exist. It is believed that the results will confirm that the participants rate the emotional response of the child differently depending on what sex they believe it to be. METHOD PARTICIPANTS The participants in this study were all first year university students studying psychology. 62 people rated the child and a random sample of 20 was taken from this group. Half of these believed the child to be a boy, and half believed it was a girl. Every effort was made to ...

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