Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated

Hunter-Nurturer Fixations

A tendency for male children to be interested in hunting-related objects and activities and female children to be interested in nurturing-related objects and activities.

There are a number of innate cognitive-behavioral differences between males and females, one of which is early childhood play preferences. Male children tend to engage in play activities that emulate hunting-related behaviors, whereas female children tend to engage in play activities that emulate nurturing-related behaviors. Although such preferences were long thought to be primarily a function of social and environmental factors, research increasingly favors a more biologically based explanation. For example, that male children tend to prefer stereotypically ...