Child Development Of Disney Princesses

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Love is one of the many common desires most people have. So when young girls believe that they do not look as pretty as a princess, they think that they will never have someone love them back. Of course, this frightens them because they do not want to grow up alone without a lover. There was a study in 2016, conducted by experts in the field of child development, of how Disney Princesses relates to gender-stereotypical behavior and body esteem among children. Later, an article was made describing how the study was done, and analyzing the results from it. The leader of the study, Professor Sarah M. Coye, who is a School of Family Life professor at Brigham Young University contributed to the article. She wrote for the article titled, “Pretty

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