Eye-tracking Studies of Gender Development

性别发展的眼球追踪研究

• 批准号: 0618411
• 负责人: Gerianne Alexander
• 金额: $ 48.05万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-01 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0618411&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Eye; tracking; Studies; Gender; Development

Very little is known about the way that hormones influence male and female responses to gender socialization during the earliest developmental period of life. This project focuses on gender-linked visual processes in infants and adults, and uses eye-tracking technology to advance understanding about how sex-linked visual processes may influence gender-linked personality and social development. Based on preliminary data, the researcher proposes that androgens influence the early emergence of gender-linked visual preferences at 7-9 months are associated with gender-linked traits, including digit ratios, and parental gender-linked beliefs and attitudes. Ultimately, the researcher contends that endogenous factors (activity level, temperament, hormone levels) in early infancy influence gender-linked visual preferences at 7-9 months, and that these preferences coupled with parental attitudes and beliefs will predict early gender role behavior. These propositions will be investigated in a series of studies involving infants and their parents. Importantly, the innovative use of eye-tracking technology in this unique population (infants) will provide new information about sex differences in social and cognitive processing that may broadly advance theories of gender development, including sex differences in psychological disorders. Findings from this research will increase knowledge about the effect of gender-linked visual preferences on the acquisition of gender roles by measuring visual preferences for objects in infancy and their association with hormone levels, activity, personality, and gender-linked play in later development. Furthermore, this research is also relevant to understanding the development of a wide array of sex-linked psychological disorders. Thus, in addition to advancing our theoretical understanding about the role of hormones and gender role development, this research has applied implication as well.

关于荷尔蒙如何影响男性和女性在生命最早发育期对性别社会化的反应，我们知之甚少。该项目的重点是婴儿和成人中与性别相关的视觉过程，并使用眼球跟踪技术来促进对与性别相关的视觉过程可能如何影响与性别相关的个性和社会发展的理解。根据初步数据，研究人员提出，雄激素影响7-9个月性别相关视觉偏好的早期出现与性别相关特征有关，包括数字比例，以及父母与性别相关的信念和态度。最终，研究人员认为，早期婴儿期的内源性因素(活动水平、气质、激素水平)影响7-9个月的性别相关视觉偏好，这些偏好加上父母的态度和信念将预测早期的性别角色行为。这些主张将在一系列涉及婴儿及其父母的研究中进行调查。重要的是，在这一独特的人群(婴儿)中创新性地使用眼球跟踪技术将提供关于社会和认知过程中的性别差异的新信息，这可能会广泛地推动性别发展理论的发展，包括心理障碍中的性别差异。这项研究的发现将通过测量婴儿期物体的视觉偏好以及它们与激素水平、活动、个性和以后发展中的性别关联游戏的关系，来增加关于性别关联视觉偏好对性别角色获得的影响的知识。此外，这项研究也与理解一系列与性有关的心理障碍的发展有关。因此，除了推进我们对荷尔蒙的作用和性别角色发展的理论理解外，这项研究还具有应用意义。