Citation

Lott B. Sex Roles 1979; 5(1): 93-98.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1979, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/BF00289350

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Jack-o-lanterns drawn by kindergarteners were submitted to adult judges who were asked both to identify the child's gender from the drawing and to give reasons for the judgment made. Judges agreed that the characteristics distinguishing girls' from boys' drawings were use of details, neatness, colorfulness, smiling face, and symmetry; while boys' drawings differed from girls' in their frightening faces, messiness, incompleteness, and unconventionality. Judges were accurate about 60% of the time in identifying boys but only about 30% of the time in identifying girls, a statistically reliable difference.