The text reports a study in which female college students interacted with a 6-month-old infant who was either a boy or a girl, and who was dressed as either a boy or a girl. (For example, sometimes a boy was dressed as a boy, sometimes he was dressed as a girl.) Results showed that the college students were more likely to treat a baby as a boy when:

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The study found that the college students were more likely to treat a baby as a boy when the child was dressed as a boy, regardless of the child's real sex. This suggests that the students were making assumptions about the baby's gender based on their clothing, rather than their actual biological sex.

The Text Reports a Study in Which Female College Students