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Carol Nagy Jacklin, Eleanor E. Maccoby, Anne E. Dick, Barrier Behavior and Toy Preference: Sex Differences (And Their Absence) in the Year-Old Child, Child Development, Vol. 44, No. 1 (Mar., 1973), pp. 196-200
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