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- Title
Biased-Interaction Theory of Psychosexual Development: “How Does One Know if One is Male or Female?”.
- Authors
Diamond, Milton
- Abstract
A theory of gender development is presented that incorporates early biological factors that organize predispositions in temperament and attitudes. With activation of these factors a person interacts in society and comes to identify as male or female. The predispositions establish preferences and aversions the growing child compares with those of others. All individuals compare themselves with others deciding who they are like ( same) and with whom are they different. These experiences and interpretations can then be said to determine how one comes to identify as male or female, man or woman. In retrospect, one can say the person has a gendered brain since it is the brain that structures the individual’s basic personality; first with inherent tendencies then with interactions coming from experience.
- Subjects
PSYCHOSEXUAL development; WOMEN in development; GENDER identity; FEMININITY; SEX differences (Biology); MASCULINITY; ENDOCRINE genetics; ROLE models; PRENATAL influences
- Publication
Sex Roles, 2006, Vol 55, Issue 9-10, p589
- ISSN
0360-0025
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11199-006-9115-y