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Gender stereotypes even apply to babies

02.05.2016

Scientists from the University of Sussex in the UK and the University of Lyon in France have shown that we tend to endow masculinity and femininity even in infants. In the study, adults judged the severity of gender characteristics by the tone of the child's cry, although in reality there is no significant difference between the voice characteristics of boys and girls until puberty.

The researchers recorded the spontaneous crying of 15 boys and 13 girls. After that, the pitch of the sounds was specially changed, all other characteristics remained unchanged. Adults participated in the study, some of them had children, some did not.

It turned out that adults often mistakenly believe that babies with a more piercing cry are female, and those with a lower tonality are male. If the participants knew in advance the sex of the child, then the height of the crying tone of the child made conclusions about the degree of severity of masculinity and femininity. "If an adult already knew that a high-pitched baby was a boy, they described it as less masculine. Similarly, girls with low-pitched crying were described as less feminine," said one of the researchers, David Reby. from the University of Sussex.

In addition, it turned out that the higher the tone of crying, the more intense the child's discomfort seems to people listening to this crying. At the same time, it is interesting that men who knew that the boy was crying more often exaggerated his discomfort.

"Research shows that we tend to mistakenly attribute what we know about adults to children: men have lower voices than women. When in fact, children's voice tone does not differ between the sexes until puberty," he explained. study co-author Nicolas Mathevon.

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