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Parental socialization significantly impacts children's toy preferences. Early exposure to toys at home, rather than direct encouragement, shapes gender-typical preferences in infants by 12 months.

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Area of Science:

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Background:

Gender socialization begins in early childhood.
Toys serve as early gender-based messaging tools.
Parental influence on children's developing identities is significant.

Purpose of the Study:

To measure the influence of parental socialization on infant toy preferences.
To assess the impact of toy exposure and parental encouragement on gender-typical toy preferences.
To determine the role of at-home toy availability in shaping infant preferences.

Main Methods:

Assessed 5- and 12 ½-month-old infants' exposure to dolls and trucks.
Experimentally manipulated parental encouragement to play with specific toys.
Correlated at-home toy presence with infant toy preferences.

Main Results:

Infants showed gender-typical toy preferences at 12 ½ months, but not at 5 months.
Brief parental encouragement did not alter infants' toy preferences.
The presence of specific toys in the home predicted infant preferences.

Conclusions:

Socialization processes influence early gender-typical toy preferences.
At-home toy exposure is a key factor in developing toy preferences.
Equal toy exposure during infancy is crucial for optimal child development.