A recent study at Yale Medical school found that young boys are much more likely to show a passionate interest in an activity or a category of objects than are young girls. (We're talking as young as 11 months, here.) Any ideas on why that might be?
Reference: Planes, trains, automobiles--and tea sets: Extremely intense interests in very young children. DeLoache, Judy S.; Simcock, Gabrielle; Macari, Suzanne; Developmental Psychology, Vol 43(6), Nov 2007. pp. 1579-1586.
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