News tagged with girls and boys
Studies reveal lifelong gender difference in physical activity
Jan 06, 2009 |
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Females of all ages are less active than their male peers. Two studies, presented today (Tuesday 6 January) at a major academic conference, reveal the gender difference in activity levels among school children and the over ...
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What about the boys?
Jun 08, 2009 |
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Both boys and girls have issues, but boys seem to be the ones getting the raw deal. According to Judith Kleinfeld, professor of psychology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in the US, issues affecting boys are more serious ...
Teenage boys take less responsibility for preventing the spread of chlamydia
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Teenage boys in Sweden take less responsibility than girls for preventing the spread of chlamydia and other sexually transmitted infections, according to a new study from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, ...
Sugar, spice and puppy dog tails: Developing sex-typed personality traits and interests
Apr 29, 2009 |
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A new longitudinal study of children's personality traits and interests tells us that sex-typed characteristics develop differently in girls and boys. The study, by researchers at The Pennsylvania State University, the University ...
Deep Voices Scare Adolescent Girls but Turn on Teens
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New research from The University of St. Andrews in Scotland has discovered that teenage girls are attracted by deep male voices, while younger girls feel intimidated by them.
New study finds gender divide in children's use of cell phone features (w/ Video)
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 17, 2009 |
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It's a given that many children will ask their parents for cell phones this Christmas. Now, a recent study by University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) sociologist Shelia Cotten, Ph.D., finds that the way the kids will use ...
Girls' violence on the rise
Sep 24, 2009 |
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The link between cyber-bullying and an increase in violence among young women will be featured in a new book published in November.
Parents' endorsement of vigorous team sports increases children's physical activity, say researchers
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 06, 2009 |
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Parents who value strenuous team sports are more likely to influence their children to join a team or at least participate in some kind of exercise, and spend less time in front of the TV or computer, a new study says.
Nielsen: Kids spending more time online
Jul 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The number of young kids online is growing faster than their parents and older siblings.
Researchers find differences in how adolescent girls’ and boys’ brains react to peer interaction
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers with the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), including a Georgia State University scientist, have found differences between girls and boys in how parts of the brain develop in ...
Friendship is mainly about 'me, me and me'
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Oct 23, 2009 |
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Young people mainly select their friends according to the image they have of another person, irrespective of whether the person concerned actually satisfies that image. Dutch researcher Maarten Selfhout has demonstrated that ...
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