Lynn S Liben
Biographic Data
| ID | 1464877 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lynn S Liben |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lynn S |
| FAMILY NAME | Liben |
| SIGNATURE | LIBEN L S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8705-8189 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 150 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Mixed-gender anxiety and gender-based relationship efficacy: A cross-lagged study of single-sex versus coeducational schooling bridging high school graduation
Gender cognitions before and after graduating from single-sex versus coeducational high schools: A longitudinal study using propensity score matching
Can a Domain-General Spatial Intervention Facilitate Children’s Science Learning? A Lesson From Astronomy
Correlational studies link spatial-test scores and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics achievement. Here we asked whether children’s understanding of astronomical phenomena would benefit from a prior intervention targeting a core component of children’s projective spatial concepts—understanding that viewers’ visual experiences are affected by vantage point. Children (8–9 years; N = 66) received outdoor and indoor experiences that di…
Addressing Sexism With Children: Young Adults’ Beliefs About Bias Socialization
College students’ beliefs concerning socializing children about sexism and other culturally important topics were investigated using mixed methods. In Study 1, participants (N = 71) defined sexism and explained their beliefs about addressing sexism with children. Thirty-five percent argued against childhood sexism-socialization. Emergent themes provided insights about how sexism is viewed and yielded data needed to design a closed-ended socializa…
Gendered Packaging of a STEM Toy Influences Children's Play, Mechanical Learning, and Mothers’ Play Guidance
To study effects of the gender-packaging of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) toys, mother–child dyads (31 daughters; 30 sons; M = 5.2 years) were randomly assigned to play with a mechanical toy packaged for girls (GoldieBlox) or boys (BobbyBlox). When familiarizing themselves with the toy to prepare for play, mothers given BobbyBlox built more with toy pieces than did mothers given GoldieBlox. During dyadic play, mothers w…
Felt Pressure to Conform to Cultural Gender Roles: Correlates and Consequences
Introduction: Natural Spaces and Development
Equity and Justice in Developmental Science: Implications for Young People, Families, and Communities
Equity and Justice in Developmental Science: Theoretical and Methodological Issues
Probability Values and Human Values in Evaluating Single-Sex Education
Understanding and Undermining the Development of Gender Dichotomies: The Legacy of Sandra Lipsitz Bem
Role of Gender in Educational Contexts and Outcomes
"Volume 47 of Advances in Child Development and Behavior includes chapters that highlight some the most recent research in the area of gender in educational, contexts and outcomes. A wide array of topics are discussed in detail, including sexism, race and gender issues, sexual orientation, single-sex education, and physical education." -- Publisher's description
A Sex Difference in Mental Rotation in Infants: Convergent Evidence
Quinn and Liben (2008) reported a sex difference on a mental rotation task in which 3‐ to 4‐month‐olds were familiarized with a shape in different rotations and then tested with a novel rotation of the familiar shape and its mirror image. As a group, males but not females showed a significant preference for the mirror image, a pattern paralleled at the individual level (with most males but less than half the females showing the preference). Exper…
Perceiving and Representing Horizontals: From Laboratories to Natural Environments and Back Again
As part of their book on children's developing conceptions of space, CitationPiaget and Inhelder (1948/1956) described age-related performance on their water level task (WLT). The WLT was intended to assess respondents' ability to perceive and represent a horizontal (water) line within a surrounding non-orthogonal frame (a tilted container's straight sides). They reported age-linked increments in performance, implying that cognitively intact indi…
The Pseudoscience of Single-Sex Schooling
Single-sex schooling lacks scientific support and may exaggerate sexism and gender stereotyping.
Gender, Values, and Occupational Interests Among Children, Adolescents, and Adults
Work fulfills personal values, perhaps differently for males and females. Explored here was the role values play in shaping occupational interests. Study 1 examined children’s, adolescents’, and adults’ (N = 313) occupational values (regarding money, power, family, altruism), occupational interests, and perceptions of values afforded by traditionally masculine and feminine occupations. Results revealed sex differences in occupational values and i…
Differing Levels of Gender Salience in Preschool Classrooms: Effects on Children’s Gender Attitudes and Intergroup Bias
Developmental intergroup theory posits that when environments make social-group membership salient, children will be particularly likely to apply categorization processes to social groups, thereby increasing stereotypes and prejudices. To test the predicted impact of environmental gender salience, 3- to 5-year-old children (N = 57) completed gender attitude, intergroup bias, and personal preference measures at the beginning and end of a 2-week pe…
Sex Differences in Children: The Continuing Quest to Understand and Modify Them
Representing, Using, and Designing Space. Review of an Interdisciplinary Life Span Conference
Meeting Reports/Abstracts| December 23 2009 Representing, Using, and Designing Space. Review of an Interdisciplinary Life Span Conference Subject Area: Psychiatry and Psychology , Women's and Children's Health Lynn S. Liben Lynn S. Liben Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Human Development (1980) 23 (3): 210–216. https://doi.org/10.1159/000272550 Article hi…
Teaching Children to Confront Peers’ Sexist Remarks: Implications for Theories of Gender Development and Educational Practice
Developmental Gender Differentiation: Pathways in Conforming and Nonconforming Outcomes
The authors review their Developmental Pathway Models that characterize normative gender differentiation during childhood. Particular attention is paid to the attitudinal pathway model that describes the routes by which children's gender attitudes guide the selection and impact of gender-related experiences for the self. The personal pathway model describes the ways in which children's own interests and skills may affect their gender-related atti…
Developmental Intergroup Theory: Explaining and Reducing Children's Social Stereotyping and Prejudice
Social stereotyping and prejudice are intriguing phenomena from the standpoint of theory and, in addition, constitute pressing societal problems. Because stereotyping and prejudice emerge in early childhood, developmental research on causal mechanisms is critical for understanding and controlling stereotyping and prejudice. Such work forms the basis of a new theoretical model, developmental intergroup theory (DIT), which addresses the causal ingr…
Race, Ethnicity, and Culture in Child Development: Contemporary Research and Future Directions
The editors of this special issue reflect on the current status and future directions of research on race, ethnicity, and culture in child development. Research in the special issue disentangles race, ethnicity, culture, and immigrant status, and identifies mediators of sociocultural variables on developmental outcomes. The special issue includes important research on normal development in context for ethnic and racial minority children, addresse…
A developmental intergroup theory of social stereotypes and prejudice
Cultural Development and Gender Development: Shared Concepts, Methodologies, and Challenges
Commentaries| June 21 2004 Cultural Development and Gender Development: Shared Concepts, Methodologies, and Challenges Subject Area: Psychiatry and Psychology , Women's and Children's Health Lynn S. Liben Lynn S. Liben The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Penn., USA Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Human Development (2004) 47 (3): 179–184. https://doi.org/10.1159/000077989 Article history Pu…
Race and the workforce: Occupational status, aspirations, and stereotyping among African American children
This study examined whether African American children's perceptions of occupational status and their own vocational interests are affected by racial segregation of the workforce. Children (N = 92) rated familiar occupations with respect to status, desirability, and stereotyping. Children also rated novel jobs that had been depicted with African Americans, European Americans, or both African and European Americans. As predicted, for familiar jobs,…
Teaching Children to Confront Peers’ Sexist Remarks: Implications for Theories of Gender Development and Educational Practice
Gender-schematic processing in children: The role of initial interpretations of stimuli
When processing gender-related information, children have difficulty remembering materials that are counterstereotypic or that are associated more strongly with the other sex. We investigated whether encoding difficulties account for these memory problems. Children (kindergarten through Grade 3) were shown pictures of men and women in traditional, nontraditional, or neutral roles. Some children were given stimulus labels at acquisition to simplif…
Felt Pressure to Conform to Cultural Gender Roles: Correlates and Consequences
Understanding and Undermining the Development of Gender Dichotomies: The Legacy of Sandra Lipsitz Bem
Adults' demonstration of underlying Euclidean concepts in relation to task context
Probability Values and Human Values in Evaluating Single-Sex Education
Performance on Piagetian horizontality and verticality tasks: Sex-related differences in knowledge of relevant physical phenomena
Deux experiences menees aupres de 320 etudiants examinent le role du sexe dans la resolution de tâches tirees de Piaget et Inhelder mesurant le sens de l'horizontale et de la verticale, et l'incidence de la performance (connaissance inadequate) ou de la competence (immaturite des notions spatiales) dans les differences liees au sexe
Can–ism and Can'tianism: A Straw Child
(1997). Can–ism and Can'tianism: A Straw Child. Annals of the Association of American Geographers: Vol. 87, No. 1, pp. 159-167
Understanding person-space-map relations: Cartographic and developmental perspectives
Drawing from cognitive-developmental and cartographic theory, we tested children's understanding of person-map-space relations. After introducing maps of the classroom, an adult moved to different positions in the room and pointed straight ahead. Five- to 12-year-old children (N= 259) placed colored arrow stickers on the map to show the person's location and heading, once when the map was aligned with the room and once when rotated 180°. Performa…
On Education and Geographers: The Role of Cognitive Developmental Theory in Geographic Education
The current focus on geographic ignorance within the discipline and within the mass media offers another opportunity to reform the teaching of geography at all grade levels. Previous reforms have met with little success. We argue that current efforts will succeed only if we integrate ideas from geography, child development, and education. Programs of geographic education must link geographic content with an understanding of the nature of the lear…
Long-term memory for pictures related to seriation, horizontality, and verticality concepts
A Social Science of the Arts: An Emerging Organizational Initiative and an Illustrative Investigation of Photography
Adults' performance on horizontality tasks: Conflicting frames of reference
Many adults fail the Piagetian water-level task designed to assess children's abilities to use coordinate axes for representing physical phenomena. Although McGillicuddy-De Lisi, De Lisi, and Youniss (1978) reported that adults' difficulties virtually disappear with a crossbar horizontality task, this advantage might reflect the absence of an embedding nonoblique context. Consistent with this hypothesis, college students in Study 1 performed no b…
The Development of Expertise in Geography: A Cognitive-Developmental Approach to Geographic Education
It is generally recognized that geographic education and cognitive development are intertwined at the precollege level. Here we argue that college-level instruction likewise depends upon appreciating the cognitive-developmental level of students as well as their level of geographic expertise. In particular, we set geographic instruction within a Piagetian approach to cognitive development and illustrate this approach by reference to two fundament…
Perspective-taking skills in young children: Seeing the world through rose-colored glasses
The Final Summation: The Defense Rests
(1997). The Final Summation: The Defense Rests. Annals of the Association of American Geographers: Vol. 87, No. 1, pp. 178-180
Copying and reproducing pictures in relation to subjects' operative levels
Introduction: Natural Spaces and Development
The facilitation of long-term memory improvement and operative development
Evidence for developmental differences in spontaneous seriation and its implications for past research on long-term memory improvement
Evidence for developmental differences in spontaneous seriation and its implications for past research on long-term memory improvement
Long-term memory for pictures related to seriation, horizontality, and verticality concepts
The facilitation of long-term memory improvement and operative development
Perspective-taking skills in young children: Seeing the world through rose-colored glasses
The operative basis of performance on Piagetian memory tasks: Evidence from normal and learning disabled children
Copying and reproducing pictures in relation to subjects' operative levels
Children's large-scale spatial cognition: Is the measure the message
Children's difficulties in drawing accurate sketch maps led earlier researchers to conclude that young children were spatially incompetent. More recently, investigators have devised new large-scale spatial tasks on which children perform well. How do our tasks affect our conclusions about children's spatial cognition
Performance on Piagetian horizontality and verticality tasks: Sex-related differences in knowledge of relevant physical phenomena
Deux experiences menees aupres de 320 etudiants examinent le role du sexe dans la resolution de tâches tirees de Piaget et Inhelder mesurant le sens de l'horizontale et de la verticale, et l'incidence de la performance (connaissance inadequate) ou de la competence (immaturite des notions spatiales) dans les differences liees au sexe
Adults' demonstration of underlying Euclidean concepts in relation to task context
Reformulating children's gender schemata
Despite changes in society and in the ways that researchers conceptualize gender schemata, stereotypes about occupations persist. Have experimental interventions been successful? How should intervention and intervention goals be reformulated for the future
On Education and Geographers: The Role of Cognitive Developmental Theory in Geographic Education
The current focus on geographic ignorance within the discipline and within the mass media offers another opportunity to reform the teaching of geography at all grade levels. Previous reforms have met with little success. We argue that current efforts will succeed only if we integrate ideas from geography, child development, and education. Programs of geographic education must link geographic content with an understanding of the nature of the lear…
Adults' performance on horizontality tasks: Conflicting frames of reference
Many adults fail the Piagetian water-level task designed to assess children's abilities to use coordinate axes for representing physical phenomena. Although McGillicuddy-De Lisi, De Lisi, and Youniss (1978) reported that adults' difficulties virtually disappear with a crossbar horizontality task, this advantage might reflect the absence of an embedding nonoblique context. Consistent with this hypothesis, college students in Study 1 performed no b…
The Development of Expertise in Geography: A Cognitive-Developmental Approach to Geographic Education
It is generally recognized that geographic education and cognitive development are intertwined at the precollege level. Here we argue that college-level instruction likewise depends upon appreciating the cognitive-developmental level of students as well as their level of geographic expertise. In particular, we set geographic instruction within a Piagetian approach to cognitive development and illustrate this approach by reference to two fundament…
Developmental Differences in Children′s Gender Schemata about Others: A Meta-analytic Review
Understanding person^space^map relations: Cartographic and developmental perspectives
Understanding person-space-map relations: Cartographic and developmental perspectives
Drawing from cognitive-developmental and cartographic theory, we tested children's understanding of person-map-space relations. After introducing maps of the classroom, an adult moved to different positions in the room and pointed straight ahead. Five- to 12-year-old children (N= 259) placed colored arrow stickers on the map to show the person's location and heading, once when the map was aligned with the room and once when rotated 180°. Performa…
Gender-schematic processing in children: The role of initial interpretations of stimuli
When processing gender-related information, children have difficulty remembering materials that are counterstereotypic or that are associated more strongly with the other sex. We investigated whether encoding difficulties account for these memory problems. Children (kindergarten through Grade 3) were shown pictures of men and women in traditional, nontraditional, or neutral roles. Some children were given stimulus labels at acquisition to simplif…
The Final Summation: The Defense Rests
(1997). The Final Summation: The Defense Rests. Annals of the Association of American Geographers: Vol. 87, No. 1, pp. 178-180
Can–ism and Can'tianism: A Straw Child
(1997). Can–ism and Can'tianism: A Straw Child. Annals of the Association of American Geographers: Vol. 87, No. 1, pp. 159-167
Pink and Blue Collar Jobs: Children's Judgments of Job Status and Job Aspirations in Relation to Sex of Worker
Real-World Knowledge through Real-World Maps: A Developmental Guide for Navigating the Educational Terrain
The effects of sex steroids on spatial performance: A review and an experimental clinical investigation
Males typically surpass females in spatial performance, an outcome that may be linked to testosterone and estrogen. The authors (a) review physiological mechanisms, developmental periods, and past empirical work relevant to sex steroids' effects on human spatial performance and (b) report an experimental study of the role of actively circulating sex steroids in adolescents being treated for delayed puberty (N = 55; mean age = 13.70 years). Sex st…
The effects of sex steroids on spatial performance: A review and an experimental clinical investigation
A Social Science of the Arts: An Emerging Organizational Initiative and an Illustrative Investigation of Photography
Extending Space: Exploring the Territory of Spatial Development
Review Articles| January 23 2003 Extending Space: Exploring the Territory of Spatial Development: Essay Review of Making Space: The Development of Spatial Representation and Reasoning by Nora S. Newcombe and Janellen Huttenlocher Subject Area: Psychiatry and Psychology , Women's and Children's Health Lynn S. Liben Lynn S. Liben The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa., USA Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed …
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