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Researchers investigated whether children (Study 1) and adults (Study 2) associated gender with body posture in alignment with traditional gender stereotypes. Implicit gender cues in the form of gendered names were used to convey gender in the studies, and body postures were varied in their expansiveness/contractiveness. In Study 1, the data did not indicate a significant relationship between gender ... read moreand body posture. In Study 2, the same survey was completed by adults. The responses of adult participants showed a significant relationship between gender and body posture, X2 (1, N = 3120) = 166.63, p < .01. Of all 3120 responses in Study 2, 693 were female-expansive, 867 were female-contractive, 1051 were male-expansive, and 509 were male-contractive. These frequencies are in alignment with traditional gender stereotypes, but the current data analysis cannot determine if the male-expansive relationship is stronger than the female-contractive relationship. Further analysis is needed to fully understand these results, and further research is needed to understand the mechanism underlying these effects.read less
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