Word: imperato
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example, he refers to the "stunning confirmation" of some of his theories in the work of Imperato-McGinley. In this work, it was found that genetically male individuals from the Dominican Republic who were born with a hormone deficiency and were, therefore, raised as girls, at puberty assumed male roles. However, he fails to point out that a group of individuals with exactly the same syndrome raised in the United States, also as girls, at puberty retained their female gender identity! If anything, this is "stunning confirmation" of the powerful effect of the social and cultural environment in influencing human...