Who Brags About What? Children’s Gendered Expectations of Bragging Restricted; Files Only
Fish, Lesenia (Spring 2024)
Abstract
Self-promotion is a useful behavior to signify competence–something women may desire to do to achieve equal status to men. When women engage in self-promotion, however, they suffer negative social evaluations for acting immodestly. Men, on the other hand, do not. Do children think that self-promotion is a male behavior? To address this, we asked whether children (ages 6-10; N = 182) have expectations about who brags (boys vs. girls), and about what (ability vs. resources vs. kindness). We found that, with age, children were more likely to expect a boy to brag. The expectation for boys to brag was also more pronounced in male compared to female participants. Finally, children expected boys to brag about their ability, but not about their resources or their kindness. Taken together, these results indicate that, to children, bragging is not a male behavior per se, but instead is associated with males in certain domains.
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