... other factors may be responsible for aggression. Social roles typically assigned to both sexes has been said to account for the differences in aggression between the sexes. Literature and mass media show predominantly men acting in the violent roles. Parents tend to buy toys for their children according to their gender, such as dolls for girls and toy weapons for boys ... to wander further from home, while growing up as opposed to girls (Whiting and Edwards 1988), to play with more aggressive toys (Goldstein 1992), to participate in more physically aggressive sports than girls and there...

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