Lynn S. Liben is developmental psychologist known for her research on effects of gender and racial stereotypes on child development.
They devised a memory test for first and second graders that involved showing them pictures of women and men in traditional, non-traditional, and neutral occupations.
Children were then given a recognition memory test using some the original photos intermixed with foils in which the gender of the person holding the occupation changed.
[12] Liben and her student Rebecca Bigler conducted influential research on gender[13] and racial stereotyping[14] and prejudice.
[15] Some of Liben's other research has focused on gender differentiation, i.e., the process of assigning social significance to biological differences between the sexes.