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The Problem With Toy Guns And Princesses

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Play Can Really Stick With Us Into Adulthood

33% of undergraduate women in our sample said that they identified themselves as princesses. Princesses were more likely to say that they valued their mates physical attractiveness and earning power. They were also less likely themselves to want to get jobs after college. And here's the clincher, when the women were given a series of really tough puzzles to measure their persistence, the princesses actually faster than the women that said that they were not princesses.

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