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To assess the effects of the sex of E and S on the performance of S in a complex task employing social reinforcement, 6-yr.-old boys and girls were presented a probability learning task in which the sex of the reinforcing agent was varied. The general results indicated that when E was a male, girls made more correct responses than boys, while boys made more correct responses than girls, when E was a female.
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The research was supported by National Institute of Child Health and Human Development grant HD-01654. The author is grateful to the staff of Eakin Elementary School, Nashville, Tennessee, for their cooperation in securing subjects for this study.
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Odom, R.D. Children’s probability learning as a function of the cross-sex effect. Psychon Sci 4, 305–306 (1966). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03342308
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