Judgments of gender norm violations in children from the United States and Korea

Children's judgments of gender norm violations in the U.S. (N= 71) and Korea (N= 73) were examined at ages 5,7 and 9 years. Children made judgments of hypothetical children violating gender norms when the violation was performed for a helping goal and when no helping goal was presented. When there was no helping goal, American children were more accepting of violations than Korean children, and older children were more accepting than younger children. However, when the norm was violated in order to help someone, there were no differences between the countries and age differences were diminished, with the majorities of children at each age judging the violation as acceptable. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.